(1) Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, N-5021 Bergen, Norway
Abstract:
Background
Intensive care patients have, both before and after the ICU stay, a health-related quality of life (HRQOL) that differs from
that of the normal population. Studies have described changes in HRQOL in the period from before the ICU stay and up to 12
months after. The aim of this study was to investigate possible longitudinal changes in HRQOL in adult patients (>18 years)
from 6 months to 2 years after discharge from a general, mixed intensive care unit (ICU) in a university hospital.