Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Meilahti Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 340, 00029, Finland. anne.kaarlola@hus.fi
To compare two health-related quality of life measures, the preference-based EQ-5D with five questions and the profile-based RAND-36 with 36 questions, in previous critically ill patients.
Prospective observational study.
A ten-bed medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) in a tertiary care university hospital.
Of the 2,709 critically ill patients, treated during the years 1995-2000, the 1,099 patients of the 1,443 still alive who returned both mailed measures were included in the study.