The Frailty Phenotype and Palliative Care Needs of Older Survivors of Critical Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess symptoms in older intensive care unit (ICU) survivors and determine whether post-ICU frailty identifies those with the greatest palliative care needs.

Design

A prospective cohort study.

Setting

Urban tertiary care hospital and community hospital.

Participants

Medical ICU survivors of mechanical ventilation aged 65 and older (N = 125).

Measurements

Baseline measurements of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS), categorized as mild (0-3), moderate (4-6), and severe (7-10), and the frailty phenotype were made during the week before hospital discharge. Functional recovery was defined as a return to a Katz activity of daily living dependency count less than or equal to the prehospitalization dependency count within 3 months. In the

SUBMITTER: Pollack LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5478496 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature