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Multicenter Study
Health Expectations and Quality of Life after Acute Respiratory Failure: A multicenter prospective cohort study.
Patients often have high expectations for recovery after critical illness, but the impact of these expectations on subsequent quality of life (QoL) after serious illnesses has not been evaluated empirically. ⋯ Fulfillment of health expectations is associated with better QoL after ARF, suggesting a mechanism underpinning successful ICU recovery programs that incorporate normalization and expectation management.
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Multicenter Study
Contamination of blood cultures from arterial catheters and peripheral venipuncture in critically ill patients: A prospective multicenter diagnostic study.
Collecting blood cultures from indwelling arterial catheters is an attractive option in critically ill adult patients when peripheral venipuncture is difficult. However, whether the contamination proportion of blood cultures from arterial catheters is acceptable compared with that from venipuncture is inconclusive. ⋯ University Hospital Medical Information Network Center (UMIN-CTR); No.: UMIN000035392; URL: https://center6.umin.ac.jp/.