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01-11-2006 | Editorial

When (quality of) life is at stake and intensive care is needed: how much can we trust our proxies?

Authors: Cristina Granja, Luis Filipe Azevedo

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 11/2006

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In this issue of Intensive Care Medicine, Scales et al. [1], present a prospective study aiming to compare estimates of pre-morbid health-related quality of life (HRQOL) obtained from 46 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) survivors to those of their substitute decision maker using the Short Form 36 (SF-36). …

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Title: When (quality of) life is at stake and intensive care is needed: how much can we trust our proxies?
Authors: Cristina Granja
Luis Filipe Azevedo
Publication date: 01-11-2006
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 11/2006
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-006-0334-z

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