TY  - JOUR
T1  - LOng-term quality of life after surgical intensive care admission
AU  - Timmers TK, Verhofstad MJ, Moons KM, van Beeck EF, Leenen LH
Y1  - 2011/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.2010.279
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 412
EP  - 418
VL  - 146
IS  - 4
N2  - 
In recent years, there has been an increased focus on outcome after intensive care treatment. Complications and prolonged hospital stay as well as the staggering costs of more extensive treatment have to be justified by favorable, preferably long-term outcome including health-related quality of life (HRQOL). A significant amount of resources in the intensive care unit (ICU) are devoted to patients with a poor prognosis, many of whom ultimately die.1- 2 Consequently, improvements of functional status and HRQOL of ICU patients have become important treatment goals. Accordingly, ICU research could shift focus from survival to HRQOL outcomes.

SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.279
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2010.279
ER  -