Báo cáo y học: "Quality of life in patients aged 80 or over after ICU discharge" pps

... self-sufficiency and quality of life one year after intensive care unit (ICU) discharge of patients aged 80 years or over. Methods: We performed a prospective observational study in a medical-surgical ICU in ... discharge in patients aged 80 years or over. Quality of life was ass essed using a validat ed tool developed for the elderly by the World Healt...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... patients are subsequently discharged. Indeed, referring elderly patients to a specialized geriatric unit would probably increase their chances of recovery [3].  e existence of promising interventions ... stay [4] in order to decrease post-traumatic stress disorder and improve quality of life may diminish the suff ering that intensive care causes patients and families. ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:20

... development of the World Health Organisation Quality of Life assessment instrument (the WHOQOL). In Quality of life assessment: international perspectives Edited by: Orley J, Kuyken W. Berlin, Germany: ... discomfort and quality of life, using the WHOQOL. Pain 1998, 76:395-406. 5. Skevington SM: Measuring quality of life in Britain: introducing the WHOQOL-100. J Psychosom...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... quality of life scores are in keeping with the findings in studies of ARDS patients that found low physical quality of life scores at five years [28-30]. Two of these studies were single time point ... and pre-morbid physical and mental quality of life scores to be independent predictors of mortality over five years. Pre-morbid quality of life has been linked to...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... nine months after discharge in four domains: more lung problems, worse motor functioning, worse positive mood and worse liveliness. Apparently, parents of these young children report more physical ... for instance respiratory and circula- tory insufficiency due to respiratory syncitial virus (RSV) infection or meningococcal disease, and all trauma patients. Furthermore children admit...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Skin Complaints (QES) The short form of the QES with 23 items is a valid instru- ment for examination of social and psychic burdens of psoriasis. The recording of stigmatization feeling and of quality ... improvement in QoL as compared to other topical therapies reported by patients. "Quality of life and clinical outcome in psoriasis patients using intermittent...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... strate- gies and inform clinical decision making. Utility assess- ment is a particularly appealing quality of life measure because it incorporates all aspect of health into a single number (between ... HGD resulted in a quality of life utility of 0.90. As would be expected, the utility scores for the HGD health states are lower (or worse quality of life) than the BE without...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... total of 30,000 IU plasma-derived AT III (Kybernin P ® ) administered as a loading dose of 6000 IU given over 30 min, followed by a continuous infusion of 6000 IU/day for 4 days. The study protocol ... patients, particularly in terms of social and psy- chologic functioning. Although no significant reduction in 90- day mortality was found for the overall population, a nominal ad...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2 Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, 3 Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, ... of Singapore, Singapore and 4 Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Email: Sanjiv Mahadeva* - sanjiv@ummc.e...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... been investigated. Thus the aim of this study was to verify the effects of a long-term multidisciplinary life- style intervention on QOL, body image, anxiety, depres- sion and binge eating in obese ... long-term multidisciplinary life- style treatment and, consequently, the improvement observed in scores of mean dimensions of QOL can be explained by numerous factors, including...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20