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01-10-2003 | Editorial

Health status after critical illness: beyond descriptive studies

Authors: Gordon D. Rubenfeld, J. Randall Curtis

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 10/2003

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Mortality in the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has dropped dramatically in the past 20 years, from over 60% to as low as 11% in patients whose ARDS is associated with trauma [1, 2]. Falling mortality rates in the setting of stable or rising incidence mean that increasing numbers of survivors are leaving our intensive care units. Recent research demonstrates that when these patients leave the ICU, the intensivist's success becomes a challenge for other clinicians because ICU survivors leave the ICU with weakness, dyspnea, depression, anxiety, and impaired thinking [3]. Patients and their families, having survived the ordeal of the ICU, find themselves facing enormous physical, emotional, and economic hurdles. …

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Title: Health status after critical illness: beyond descriptive studies
Authors: Gordon D. Rubenfeld
J. Randall Curtis
Publication date: 01-10-2003
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 10/2003
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-003-1855-3

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