Health-Related Quality of Life After Community-Acquired Septic Shock in Children With Preexisting Severe Developmental Disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To serially evaluate health-related quality of life during the first year after community-acquired septic shock in children with preexisting severe developmental disabilities and explore factors associated with health-related quality of life changes in these children.

Design

Secondary analysis of the Life after Pediatric Sepsis Evaluation investigation.

Setting

Twelve academic PICU in the United States.

Patients

Children greater than or equal to 1 month and less than 18 years old identified by their family caregiver (e.g., parent/guardian) as having severe developmental disability prior to septic shock.

Interventions

Family caregivers completed the Stein-Jessop Functional Status II-R Short Form as a measure of their child's health-related qual

SUBMITTER: Meert KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8099927 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature