Prevalence and Course of Frailty in Survivors of Critical Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Little is known about frailty that develops following critical illness. We sought to describe the prevalence of newly acquired frailty, its clinical course, and the co-occurrence of frailty with disability and cognitive impairment in survivors of critical illness.

Design

Longitudinal prospective cohort study.

Setting

Medical and surgical ICUs at five U.S. centers.

Patients

Adult patients treated for respiratory failure and/or shock.

Measurements and main results

We measured frailty with the Clinical Frailty Scale at baseline (i.e., study enrollment) and at 3 and 12 months postdischarge. We constructed alluvial diagrams to describe the course of frailty and Venn diagrams to describe the overlap of frailty with disability in activities of daily

SUBMITTER: Brummel NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7941759 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature