Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Health-related quality of life before planned admission to intensive care: memory over three and six months | Capuzzo et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8 103 http content 8 1 103 HEALTH AND QUALITY of life outcomes RESEARCH Open Access Health-related quality of life before planned admission to intensive care memory over three and six months 1 1 1 1 23 Maurizia Capuzzo Sara Bertacchini Elena Davanzo Giovanna Felisatti Laura Paparella Laura Tadini Raffaele Alvisi1 Abstract Background The validity of Health-Related Quality of Life HRQOL recalled by ICU admitted patients have not been published. The aim of this study was to compare the baseline HRQOL measured before surgery and ICU admission with that recalled at 3 and 6 months in a population of patients with planned ICU admission after surgery. Methods This prospective study was performed in three Italian centres on patients who had undergone General Orthopaedic or Urologic surgery. All adult patients with planned ICU admission between October 2007 and July 2008 were considered for enrolment. At hospital admission the Mini Mental Status Examination and EuroQoL EQ questionnaire referring to the last two weeks were administered to the patients who consented. Three and six months after ICU admission the researchers administered by phone the EQ questionnaire and Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome 14 questions Inventory asking the patients to rate their HRQOL before surgery and ICU admission. Past medical history demographic and clinical ICU-related variables were collected. Statistical analysis Chi-square test and non parametric statistics were used to compare groups of patients. The EQ-5D was transformed in the time trade-off TTO to obtain a continuous variable subsequently analysed using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient ICC . Results Of the 104 patients assessed at baseline and discharged from the hospital 93 had the EQ administered at 3 months and 89 at 6 months. The ICC for TTO recalled at 3 months vs pre-ICU TTO was and that for TTO recalled at 6 months vs pre-ICU TTO was . The ICC .
