Financial Toxicity After Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A National Qualitative Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The financial burdens and subsequent related distress of medical care, referred to as financial toxicity, may limit access to beneficial treatments. However, financial toxicity after acute care is less described-and may be an important but underexplored mechanism preventing full recovery after critical illnesses such as acute respiratory distress syndrome. We sought to identify the mechanisms by which financial toxicity manifested in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, protective factors against such toxicity, and the consequences of financial toxicity to survivors' lives following acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Design

We conducted semistructured interviews following patients' hospitalization and during recovery as an ancillary study to a mult

SUBMITTER: Hauschildt KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7387748 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature