Determinants of Subjective Mental and Functional Health of Critical Illness Survivors: Comparing Pre-ICU and Post-ICU Status.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare ICU survivors' subjective mental and functional health before ICU admission and after discharge and to assess determinants of subjective health decline or improvement.

Design

Secondary analysis of the multicenter cluster-randomized Enhanced Recovery after Intensive Care trial ( ClinicalTrials.gov : NCT03671447).

Setting

Ten ICU clusters in Germany.

Patients

Eight hundred fifty-five patients with 1478 follow-up assessments.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

At two patient follow-ups scheduled 3 and 6 months after ICU discharge, patients rated their subjective mental and functional/physical health on two separate visual analog scales from 0 (worst) to 10 (best) in the previous week and before ICU admission. We c

SUBMITTER: Paul N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11008443 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature