Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Severity and Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes: Single-Center Retrospective Cohort, 2011-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine factors associated with health-related quality of life (HRQL) decline among pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS) survivors.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Academic children's hospital.

Patients

Three hundred fifteen children 1 month to 18 years old with an unplanned PICU admission from December 2011 to February 2017 enrolled in the hospital's Outcomes Assessment Program.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Pre-admission baseline and median 6-week post-discharge HRQL were assessed using the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory or the Functional Status II-R. Patients meeting retrospectively applied Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference criteria for PARDS were identif

SUBMITTER: Killien EY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11379538 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature