Quality of life before intensive care admission: Agreement between patient and relative assessment

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1288-1295

  Capuzzo, M ^a   Grasselli, C ^a   Carrer, S ^a   Gritti, G ^b   Alvisi, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intensive care; Proxy responses; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMOTION; FAMILY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERVIEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROXY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033801673     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340051341     Document Type: Article

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