Components of Health-Related Quality of Life Most Affected Following Pediatric Critical Illness
OBJECTIVES:
To evaluate which individual elements of health-related quality of life contribute most to decline in overall health-related quality of life status following pediatric critical care.
DESIGN:
Retrospective cohort study.
SETTING:
Seattle Children’s Hospital.
PATIENTS:
ICU patients age 1 month to 18 years admitted between December 2011 and February 2017.
INTERVENTIONS:
None.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:
We assessed health-relatedquality of life decline from baseline to postdischarge (median, 6 wk) and determined the individual items of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Infant Scales (
Source: Critical Care Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Online Clinical Investigations Source Type: research