Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · May 1995
Multicenter StudyQuality of life after intensive care with the sickness impact profile.
a) to validate the structure of the Sickness Impact Profile scale (SIP) when applied to intensive care patients after discharge from the hospital; b) to explore the influence of age upon the various components of quality of life. ⋯ The study validated the use of the SIP QOL-instrument on patients after intensive care. Age influenced consistently the various components of quality of life.