Health-related quality of life in critically ill patients: How to score and what is the clinical impact?

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 425-430

  Hofhuis, Jose G M ^a,c   Van Stel, Henk F ^b   Schrijvers, Augustinus J P ^b   Rommes, Johannes H ^a   Bakker, Jan ^c   Spronk, Peter E ^a,d  

^a GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health related quality of life; Intensive care; Measurement instruments; Prognostic factor; Proxies

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MENTAL HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 70350095573     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e32833079e4     Document Type: Review

References (60)

1. Graf J, Koch M, Dujardin R, et al. Health-related quality of life before, 1 month after, and 9 months after intensive care in medical cardiovascular and pulmonary patients. Crit Care Med 2003; 31:2163-2169.
2. Wu A, Gao F. Long-term outcomes in survivors from critical illness. Anaesthesia 2004; 59:1049-1052.
3. Gill TM, Feinstein AR. A critical appraisal of the quality of quality-of-life measurements. JAMA 1994; 272:619-626.
4. World Health Organization. The first ten years of the World Health Organization. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; 1958.
5. Black NA, Jenkinson C, Hayes JA, et al. Review of outcome measures used in adult critical care. Crit Care Med 2001; 29:2119-2124.
6. Garratt A, Schmidt L, Mackintosh A, et al. Quality of life measurement: bibliographic study of patient assessed health outcome measures. BMJ 2002; 324:1417.
7. Higginson IJ, Carr AJ. Measuring quality of life: using quality of life measures in the clinical setting. BMJ 2001; 322:1297-1300.
8. Angus DC, Carlet J. Surviving intensive care: a report from the 2002 Brussels Roundtable. Intensive Care Med 2003; 29:368-377.
9. Ware JE. Health survey manual and interpretation guide. Boston: Medical Outcomes Trust; 1993.
10. Brazier J, Jones N, Kind P. Testing the validity of the Euroqol and comparing it with the SF-36 health survey questionnaire. Qual Life Res 1993; 2:169-180.
11. Heyland DK, Kutsogiannis DJ. Quality of life following critical care: moving beyond survival. Intensive Care Med 2000; 26:1172-1175.
12. Chrispin PS, Scotton H, Rogers J, et al. Short Form 36 in the intensive care unit: assessment of acceptability, reliability and validity of the questionnaire. Anaesthesia 1997; 52:15-23.
13. Heyland DK, Hopman W, Coo H, et al. Long-term health-related quality of life in survivors of sepsis. Short Form 36: a valid and reliable measure of healthrelated quality of life. Crit Care Med 2000; 28:3599-3605.
14. Khoudri I, Ali ZA, Abidi K, et al. Measurement properties of the short form 36 and health-related quality of life after intensive care in Morocco. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2007; 51:189-197.
15. Ridley SA, Chrispin PS, Scotton H, et al. Changes in quality of life after intensive care: comparison with normal data. Anaesthesia 1997; 52:195-202.
16. Ware JE Jr, Kosinski M, Bayliss M, et al. Comparison of methods for the scoring and statistical analysis of SF-36 health profile and summary measures: summary of results from the Medical Outcomes Study. Med Care 1995; 33:AS264-AS279.
17. Ware J Jr, Kosinski M, Keller SD. A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey: construction of scales and preliminary tests of reliability and validity. Med Care 1996; 34:220-233.
18. The EuroQol Group. EuroQol: a new facility for the measurement of healthrelated quality of life. Health Policy 1990; 16:199-208.
19. Brooks R, Rabin RE, de Charro FTh. The measurement and valuation of health status using EQ-5D: a European perspective. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 2003.
20. Capuzzo M, Grasselli C, Carrer S, et al. Quality of life before intensive care admission: agreement between patient and relative assessment. Intensive Care Med 2000; 26:1288-1295.
21. Rogers J, Ridley S, Chrispin P, et al. Reliability of the next of kins' estimates of critically ill patients' quality of life. Anaesthesia 1997; 52:1137-1143. (Pubitemid 27511250)
22. Scales DC, Tansey CM, Matte A, et al. Difference in reported premorbid health-related quality of life between ARDS survivors and their substitute decision makers. Intensive Care Med 2006; 32:1826-1831.
23. Hofhuis J, Hautvast JL, Schrijvers AJ, Bakker J. Quality of life on admission to the intensive care: can we query the relatives? Intensive Care Med 2003;29:974-979.
24. Badia X, Diaz-Prieto A, Rue M, et al. Measuring health and health state preferences among critically ill patients. Intensive Care Med 1996; 22:1379-1384.
25. Rothman ML, Hedrick SC, Bulcroft KA, et al. The validity of proxy-generated scores as measures of patient health status. Med Care 1991; 29:115-124.
26. Sprangers MA, Aaronson NK. The role of healthcare providers and significant others in evaluating the quality of life of patients with chronic disease: a review. J Clin Epidemiol 1992; 45:743-760.
27. Hofhuis J, Hautvast JL, Schrijvers AJ, et al. Quality of life on admission to the intensive care: can we query the relatives? Intensive Care Med 2003;29:974-979.
28. Goldstein RL, Campion EW, Thibault GE, et al. Functional outcomes following medical intensive care. Crit Care Med 1986; 14:783-788.
29. Vazquez MG, Rivera FR, Gonzalez CA, et al. Factors related to quality of life 12 months after discharge from an intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 1992;20:1257-1262.
30. Yinnon A, Zimran A, Hershko C. Quality of life and survival following intensive medical care. Q J Med 1989; 71:347-357.
31. Cuthbertson BH, Scott J, Strachan M, et al. Quality of life before and after intensive care. Anaesthesia 2005; 60:332-339.
32. Wehler M, Geise A, Hadzionerovic D, et al. Health-related quality of life of patients with multiple organ dysfunction: individual changes and comparison with normative population. Crit Care Med 2003; 31:1094-1101.
33. Wehler M, Martus P, Geise A, et al. Changes in quality of life after medical intensive care. Intensive Care Med 2001; 27:154-159.
34. Hofhuis JG, Spronk PE, van Stel HF, et al. The impact of critical illness on perceived health-related quality of life during ICU treatment, hospital stay, and after hospital discharge: a long-term follow-up study. Chest 2008; 133:377-385.
35. Hofhuis JG, Spronk PE, van Stel HF, et al. The impact of severe sepsis on health-related quality of life: a long-term follow-up study. Anesth Analg 2008;107:1957-1964.
36. Sprangers MA, Schwartz CE. Integrating response shift into health-related quality of life research: a theoretical model. Soc Sci Med 1999; 48:1507-1515.
37. Capuzzo M, Moreno RP, Jordan B, et al. Predictors of early recovery of health status after intensive care. Intensive Care Med 2006; 32:1832-1838.
38. Hurel D, Loirat P, Saulnier F, et al. Quality of life 6 months after intensive care: results of a prospective multicenter study using a generic health status scale and a satisfaction scale. Intensive Care Med 1997; 23:331-337.
39. Herridge MS, Cheung AM, Tansey CM, et al. One-year outcomes in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med 2003; 348:683-693.
40. Flaatten H, Kvale R. Survival and quality of life 12 years after ICU. A comparison with the general Norwegian population. Intensive Care Med 2001; 27:1005-1011.
41. Rivera-Fernandez R, Navarrete-Navarro P, Fernandez-Mondejar E, et al. Sixyear mortality and quality of life in critically ill patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Crit Care Med 2006; 34:2317-2324.
42. Wildman MJ, Sanderson CF, Groves J, et al. Survival and quality of life for patients with COPD or asthma admitted to intensive care in a UK multicentre cohort: the COPD and Asthma Outcome Study (CAOS). Thorax 2009;64:128-132.
43. van der Schaaf M, Beelen A, Dongelmans DA, et al. Functional status after intensive care: a challenge for rehabilitation professionals to improve outcome. J Rehabil Med 2009; 41:360-366. This study examined restrictions in daily functioning in patients after discharge from the ICU and showed that patients had great limitations in physically related activities.
44. Knaus WA, Wagner DP, Zimmerman JE, et al. Variations in mortality and length of stay in intensive care units. Ann Intern Med 1993; 118:753-761.
45. Angus D, Ishizaka A, Matthay M, et al. Critical care in AJRCCM 2004. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005; 171:537-544.
46. Consensus conference organised by the ESICM and the SRLF. Predicting outcome in ICU patients. Intensive Care Med 1994; 20:390-397.
47. Knaus WA, Draper EA, Wagner DP, et al. APACHE II: a severity of disease classification system. Crit Care Med 1985; 13:818-829.
48. Knaus WA, Wagner DP, Draper EA, et al. The APACHE III prognostic system. Risk prediction of hospital mortality for critically ill hospitalized adults. Chest 1991; 100:1619-1636.
49. Lemeshow S, Teres D, Klar J, et al. Mortality Probability Models (MPM II) based on an international cohort of intensive care unit patients. JAMA 1993;270:2478-2486.
50. Le Gall JR, Lemeshow S, Saulnier F. A new Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) based on a European/North American multicenter study. JAMA 1993; 270:2957-2963.
51. Deoreo PB. Hemodialysis patient-assessed functional health status predicts continued survival, hospitalization, and dialysis-attendance compliance. Am J Kidney Dis 1997; 30:204-212.
52. Kalantar-Zadeh K, Kopple JD, Block G, Humphreys MH. Association among SF36 quality of life measures and nutrition, hospitalization, and mortality in hemodialysis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2001; 12:2797-2806.
53. Lowrie EG, Curtin RB, LePain N, Schatell D. Medical outcomes study short form-36: a consistent and powerful predictor of morbidity and mortality in dialysis patients. Am J Kidney Dis 2003; 41:1286-1292.
54. Rumsfeld JS, MaWhinney S, McCarthy M Jr, et al. Health-related quality of life as a predictor of mortality following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Participants of the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Processes, Structures, and Outcomes of Care in Cardiac Surgery. JAMA 1999; 281:1298-1303.
55. Konstam V, Salem D, Pouleur H, et al. Baseline quality of life as a predictor of mortality and hospitalization in 5,025 patients with congestive heart failure. SOLVD Investigations. Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction Investigators. Am J Cardiol 1996; 78:890-895.
56. Maisey NR, Norman A, Watson M, et al. Baseline quality of life predicts survival in patients with advanced colorectal cancer. Eur J Cancer 2002;38:1351-1357.
57. Welsh CH, Thompson K, Long-Krug S. Evaluation of patient-perceived health status using the Medical Outcomes Survey Short-Form 36 in an intensive care unit population. Crit Care Med 1999; 27:1466-1471.
58. Iribarren-Diarasarri S, Aizpuru-Barandiaran F, Munoz-Martinez T, et al. Healthrelated quality of life as a prognostic factor of survival in critically ill patients. Intensive Care Med 2009; 35:833-839. This study investigated whether a patient's health status prior to ICU admission can be used as a prognostic factor of hospital and 1-year mortality and found that poor quality of life is associated with hospital mortality and survival 12 months after hospital discharge.
59. Hofhuis JG, Spronk PE, van Stel HF, et al. Quality of life before intensive care unit admission is a predictor of survival. Crit Care 2007; 11:R78.
60. Rivera-Fernandez R, Sanchez-Cruz JJ, Abizanda-Campos R, et al. Quality of life before intensive care unit admission and its influence on resource utilization and mortality rate. Crit Care Med 2001; 29:1701-1709.