Functional status after critical illness: agreement between patient and proxy assessments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

assessment of baseline functional status of older patients during and after intensive care unit (ICU) admission is often hampered by challenges related to the critical illness such as cognitive dysfunction, neuropsychological morbidity and pain. To explore the reliability of assessments by carefully chosen proxies, we designed a discriminating selection of proxies and evaluated agreement between patient and proxy responses by assessing activities of daily living (ADLs) at 1 month post-ICU discharge.

Methods

patients ≥60 years old admitted to the medical ICU were enrolled in a prospective parent cohort studying delirium. Proxies were carefully screened at ICU admission to choose the best available respondent. Follow-up interviews, including instruments for ADLs, we

SUBMITTER: Ahasic AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4411220 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature