One-Year Outcomes in Caregivers of Critically Ill Patients
Author(s) -
Jill I. Cameron,
Leslie M. Chu,
Andrea Matté,
George Tomlinson,
Linda S. Chan,
Claire Thomas,
Jan O. Friedrich,
Sangeeta Mehta,
François Lamontagne,
Mélanie Levasseur,
Niall D. Ferguson,
Neill K. J. Adhikari,
Jill Rudkowski,
Hilary Meggison,
Yoanna Skrobik,
John Flannery,
Mark Bayley,
Jane Batt,
Claúdia C. dos Santos,
Susan Abbey,
Adrienne Tan,
Vincent Lo,
Sunita Mathur,
Matteo Parotto,
Denise Morris,
Linda Flockhart,
Eddy Fan,
Christie M. Lee,
M. Elizabeth Wilcox,
Najib Ayas,
Karen Choong,
Robert Fowler,
Damon C. Scales,
Tasnim Sinuff,
Brian H. Cuthbertson,
Louise Rose,
Priscila Robles,
Stacey Burns,
Marcelo Cypel,
L.G. Singer,
Cecilia Chaparro,
ChungWai Chow,
Shaf Keshavjee,
Laurent Brochard,
Paul C. Hébert,
Arthur S. Slutsky,
John C. Marshall,
Deborah J. Cook,
Margaret S. Herridge
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1511160
Subject(s) - medicine , spouse , intensive care unit , quality of life (healthcare) , depression (economics) , mechanical ventilation , caregiver burden , social support , depressive symptoms , psychiatry , anxiety , nursing , disease , dementia , psychology , sociology , anthropology , economics , psychotherapist , macroeconomics
Few resources are available to support caregivers of patients who have survived critical illness; consequently, the caregivers' own health may suffer. We studied caregiver and patient characteristics to determine which characteristics were associated with caregivers' health outcomes during the first year after patient discharge from an intensive care unit (ICU).
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