Mortality is a well-established patient-important outcome in critical care *** contrast,morbidity is less uniformly reported(given the myriad of critical care illnesses and complications of each)but may have a common ...
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Mortality is a well-established patient-important outcome in critical care *** contrast,morbidity is less uniformly reported(given the myriad of critical care illnesses and complications of each)but may have a common end-impact on a patient’s functional capacity and health-related quality-of-life(HRQoL).Survival with a poor quality-of-life may not be acceptable depending on individual patient values and ***,as mortality decreases within critical care,it becomes increasingly important to measure intensive care unit(ICU)survivor *** measurements with a preference-based scoring algorithm can be converted into health utilities on a scale anchored at 0(representing death)and 1(representing full health).They can be combined with survival to calculate quality-adjusted life-years(QALY),which are one of the most widely used methods of combining morbidity and mortality into a composite *** QALYs have been use for health-technology assessment decision-making,an emerging and novel role would be to inform clinical decision-making for patients,families and healthcare providers about what expected HRQoL may be during and after ICU *** care randomized control trials(RCTs)have not routinely measured or reported HRQoL(until more recently),likely due to incapacity of some patients to participate in patient-reported outcome *** differences in HRQoL measurement tools can lead to non-comparable *** this end,we propose the validation of a gold-standard HRQoL tool in critical care,specifically the *** combined health-utility and mortality(disaggregated)and QALYs(aggregated)can be reported,with disaggregation allowing for determination of which components are the main drivers of the QALY *** use of HRQoL,health-utility,and QALYs in critical care RCTs has the potential to:(1)Increase the likelihood of finding important effects if they exist;(2)improve research efficiency;and(3)help inform optimal m
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