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

Author(s) -

Amy M. Ahasic,

Peter H. Van Ness,

Terrence E. Murphy,

Katy Araujo,

Margaret A. Pisani

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afu163

Subject(s) - medicine , proxy (statistics) , critical illness , intensive care medicine , critically ill , statistics , mathematics

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.

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