TY - JOUR
T1 - One-year mortality, quality of life and predicted life-time cost-utility in critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure
AU - Linko, Rita
AU - Suojaranta-Ylinen, Raili
AU - Karlsson, Sari
AU - Ruokonen, Esko
AU - Varpula, Tero
AU - Pettila, Ville Yrjo Olavi
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - High daily intensive care unit (ICU) costs are associated with the use of mechanical ventilation (MV) to treat acute respiratory failure (ARF), and assessment of quality of life (QOL) after critical illness and cost-effectiveness analyses are warranted. This article finds that despite lower health-related QOL compared to reference values, our result suggests that cost per hospital survivor and lifetime cost-utility remain reasonable regardless of age, disease severity, and type or duration of ventilation support in patients with ARF.
AB - High daily intensive care unit (ICU) costs are associated with the use of mechanical ventilation (MV) to treat acute respiratory failure (ARF), and assessment of quality of life (QOL) after critical illness and cost-effectiveness analyses are warranted. This article finds that despite lower health-related QOL compared to reference values, our result suggests that cost per hospital survivor and lifetime cost-utility remain reasonable regardless of age, disease severity, and type or duration of ventilation support in patients with ARF.
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2887181/pdf/cc8957.pdf
U2 - 10.1186/cc8957
DO - 10.1186/cc8957
M3 - Article
SN - 1364-8535
VL - 14
JO - Critical Care
JF - Critical Care
IS - 2
M1 - R60
ER -