Highlights the lack of standardization and validation for survival and quality of life outcome measures in critically ill patients.
Lack of validated survival and QoL measures impairs ICU prognostication; leaves open standardization of critical care outcomes.
Measuring outcome following intensive care is important. Numerous outcome measures have been developed but two of the most important are the duration of survival and the quality of that survival. Unfortunately, neither of these two measures has been either standardized or validated for use in critically ill patients. This review examines some of the problems relating to survival and quality of life measurement.
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