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: Quality of life of survivors from severe sepsis and septic shock may be similar to that of others who survive critical illness. | Available online http content 8 2 R91 Research Open Access Quality of life of survivors from severe sepsis and septic shock may be similar to that of others who survive critical illness Cristina Granja1 Cláudia Dias2 Altamiro Costa-Pereira3 and António Sarmento4 11ntensivist Consultant in Anesthesiology Department of Intensive Care Hospital Pedro Hispano Matosinhos Portugal 2Research Assistant Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Faculty of Medicine of Oporto Alameda Prof. Hernani Monteiro Oporto Portugal 3Professor and Head of Department Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Faculty of Medicine of Oporto Alameda Prof. Hernani Monteiro Oporto Portugal 4Associate Professor of Medicine Faculty of Medicine of Oporto Alameda Prof. Hernani Monteiro Oporto and Head Department of Intensive Care Hospital Pedro Hispano Matosinhos Portugal Correspondence Cristina Granja cristinagranja@ Received 29 December 2003 Accepted 27 January 2004 Published 20 February 2004 Critical Care 2004 8 R91-R98 DOI cc2818 This article is online at http content 8 2 R91 2004 Granja et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X . This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Introduction The objective of the present study was to compare the health-related quality of life HR-QoL of survivors from severe sepsis and septic shock with HR-QoL in others who survived critical illness not involving sepsis. Methods From March 1997 to March 2001 adult patients in an eight-bed medical surgical intensive care unit ICU of a tertiary care hospital admitted with severe sepsis or septic shock sepsis group n 305 were enrolled and compared with patients admitted without sepsis control group n 392 . Patients younger than 18 years n 48 and those whose ICU .
