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Long-term recovery following critical illness in an Australian cohort

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Intensive Care, February 2018
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Title
Long-term recovery following critical illness in an Australian cohort
Published in
Journal of Intensive Care, February 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40560-018-0276-x
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Kimberley J. Haines, Sue Berney, Stephen Warrillow, Linda Denehy

Abstract

Almost all data on 5-year outcomes for critical care survivors come from North America and Europe. The aim of this study was to investigate long-term mortality, physical function, psychological outcomes and health-related quality of life in a mixed intensive care unit cohort in Australia. This longitudinal study evaluated 4- to 5-year outcomes. Physical function (six-minute walk test) and health-related quality of life (Short Form 36 Version 2) were compared to 1-year outcomes and population norms. New psychological data (Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression, Impact of Events Scale) was collected at follow-up. Of the 150 participants, 66 (44%) patients were deceased by follow-up. Fifty-six survivors were included with a mean (SD) age of 64 (14.2). Survivors' mean (SD) six-minute walk distance increased between 1 and 4 to 5 years (465.8 m (148.9) vs. 507.5 m (118.2)) (mean difference = - 24.5 m, CI - 58.3, 9.2,p = 0.15). Depressive symptoms were low: median (IQR) score of 7.0 (1.0-15.0). The mean level of post-traumatic stress symptoms was low-median (IQR) score of 1.0 (0-11.0)-with only 9 (16%) above the threshold for potentially disordered symptoms. Short-Form 36 Physical and Mental Component Scores did not change between 1 and 4 to 5 years (46.4 (7.9) vs. 46.7 (8.1) and 48.8 (13) vs. 48.8 (11.1)) and were within a standard deviation of normal. Outcomes of critical illness are not uniform across nations. Mortality was increased in this cohort; however, survivors achieved a high level of recovery for physical function and health-related quality of life with low psychological morbidity at follow-up. The trial was registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12605000776606.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 85 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 22%
Researcher 11 13%
Student > Bachelor 9 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 6%
Professor 4 5%
Other 15 18%
Unknown 22 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 24 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 22%
Psychology 3 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Unspecified 2 2%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 28 33%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 August 2018.
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#1,177,461
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#50
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#29,435
of 442,436 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Intensive Care
#4
of 20 outputs
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