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.
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Intensive care medicine · Jan 1993
Multicenter StudyIncidence and risk factors of pneumonia acquired in intensive care units. Results from a multicenter prospective study on 996 patients. European Cooperative Group on Nosocomial Pneumonia.
To estimate the incidence of pneumonia acquired in the intensive care unit (ICU), and to define risk factors for developing such an event. ⋯ The role of the injury to the respiratory system-with the subsequent need for respiratory support--appears central in determining the risk to acquire pneumonia in ICU. In the future, the predictive value of severity scores during ICU course should be otherwise assessed.
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Intensive care medicine · Jan 1989
Multicenter Study Clinical TrialDescription of various types of intensive and intermediate care units in France. French Multicentric Group of ICU Research.
The types of intensive care are multiple. The aim of this multicentric study was to describe activity of different ICUs using the same methods. 38 ICU were chosen by cooption, not randomization. Collected data concerned input (age, previous health status (HS), Simplified Acute Physiology Score or SAPS, Intensive Care Group (ICG), processes (TISS points), percentage of ventilated patients and pulmonary arterial lines and outcome (ICU death rate). ⋯ Surgical patients had better previous health status, were younger and scheduled for 40%. TISS points were higher, mainly by a higher rate of ventilated patients and patients with pulmonary artery lines on the first day. Specialized units characteristics depended mainly on the ICG.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)