Quality of life on admission to the intensive care: Can we query the relatives?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 974-979

  Hofhuis, Jose ^a   Hautvast, Jeannine L A ^a,b   Schrijvers, Augustinus J P ^a   Bakker, Jan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b GGD Regio Nijmegen   (Netherlands)

^c HOSPITAL DE WEEZENLANDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critically ill; Intensive care; Outcome; Proxy responses; Quality of life; Short Form 36 questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; RELIABILITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0038127257     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-1763-6     Document Type: Article

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