Effects on health-related quality of life of interventions affecting survival in critically ill patients: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Survival has been considered the cornerstone for clinical outcome evaluation in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU). There is evidence that ICU survivors commonly show impairments in long-term outcomes such as quality of life (QoL) considering them as the most relevant ones. In the last years, the concept of patient-important outcomes has been introduced and increasingly reported in peer-reviewed publications. In the present systematic review, we evaluated how many randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were conducted on critically ill patients and reporting a benefit on survival reported also data on QoL. All RCTs investigating nonsurgical interventions that significantly reduced mortality in critically ill patients were searched on MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus and Embase

SUBMITTER: Pallanch O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075706 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature