Long-Term Health Related Quality of Life following Intensive Care during Treatment for Haematological Malignancies

Maarten van Vliet, Mark van den Boogaard, J Peter Donnelly, Andrea W M Evers, Nicole M A Blijlevens and Peter Pickkers

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Objective: Long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was determined for patients admitted to the haematology ward who needed intensive care treatment (H-IC+) and compared with those who did not (H-IC−) as well as with that for patients admitted to the general ICU (nH-IC+). Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out median 18 months after admission by employing the short form-36, checklist for individual strength, cognitive failure questionnaire and hospital anxiety and depression scale. Results: 27 (79%) of the 34 H-IC+ patients approached, and 93 (85%) of the 109 H-IC− patients approached replied. Data were adjusted for relevant covariates and matched with those of 149 patients in the general ICU. Apart from the lower role-physical functioning score for H-IC+ (P = 0.04) no other differences were found between H-IC+ and H-IC−. Groups H-IC+ and nH-IC+ evaluated their HRQoL on SF-36 similarly, except for the lower aggregated physical component summary (PCS) for H-IC+ (P

Date: 2014
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