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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 7/2015

01-07-2015 | Editorial

Tools for revealing uncomfortable truths? Measuring child-centred health-related quality of life after paediatric intensive care

Authors: Rachel S. Agbeko, Jeffrey P. Burns, Mark J. Peters

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 7/2015

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Excerpt

The benefits of paediatric intensive care units (PICU) are self-evident. Mortality rates for critically children have declined dramatically [1]. The greatest gains are occurring in higher-risk groups in whom the appropriateness of critical care was previously questioned. For example, those with malignancies [2] fare better and require a more optimistic approach than hitherto thought [3]. …
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Metadata
Title
Tools for revealing uncomfortable truths? Measuring child-centred health-related quality of life after paediatric intensive care
Authors
Rachel S. Agbeko
Jeffrey P. Burns
Mark J. Peters
Publication date
01-07-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 7/2015
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3873-3

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