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Báo cáo khoa học: "Intensive care unit acquired infection has no impact on long-term survival or quality of life: a prospective cohort study"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Intensive care unit acquired infection has no impact on long-term survival or quality of life: a prospective cohort study. | Available online http ccforum.eom content 11 2 R35 Research Intensive care unit acquired infection has no impact on long-term survival or quality of life a prospective cohort study Pekka Ylipalosaari1 Tero I Ala-Kokko2 Jouko Laurila2 Pasi Ohtonen3 and Hannu Syrjala1 Department of Infection Control Oulu University Hospital P.O. Box 22 FIN-90029 OYS Finland department of Anesthesiology Division of Intensive Care Oulu University Hospital P.O. Box 22 FIN-90029 OYS Finland departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery Oulu University Hospital P.O. Box 22 FIN-90029 OYS Finland Corresponding author Pekka Ylipalosaari pekka.ylipalosaari@oulu.fi Received 29 Nov 2006 Revisions requested 9 Jan 2007 Revisions received 1 Feb 2007 Accepted 9 Mar 2007 Published 9 Mar 2007 Critical Care 2007 11 R35 doi 10.1186 cc5718 This article is online at http ccforum.com content 11 2 R35 2007 Ylipalosaari et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of intensive care unit ICU -acquired infection on long-term survival and quality of life. Methods Long-term survival was prospectively evaluated among hospital survivors who had stayed in a mixed universitylevel ICU for longer than 48 hours during a 14-month study period during 2002 to 2003. Health-related quality of life was assessed using the five-dimensional EuroQol EQ-5D questionnaire in January 2005. Results Of the 272 hospital survivors 83 30.5 died after discharge during the follow-up period. The median follow-up time after hospital discharge was 22 months. Among patients without infection on admission long-term mortality did not differ between patients who developed and those who did not develop an ICU-acquired