Proxy respondents reliably assessed the quality of life of elective cardiac surgery patients

Elliott, Doug; Lazarus, Ross; Leeder, Stephen

doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.06.010

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“…This relationship was only found in the patient group with a low severity of illness. A potential explanation for this observation is the fact that readmissions to ICU of severely ill patients are rather caused by their underlying comorbidities (Elliott et al. 2006) than by organizational factors like, for example, staffing levels.…”

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The relationship between in‐hospital mortality, readmission into the intensive care nursing unit and/or operating theatre and nurse staffing levels

Diya

Heede

Sermeus

et al. 2011

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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The relationship between in‐hospital mortality, readmission into the intensive care nursing unit and/or operating theatre and nurse staffing levels

Diya

Heede

Sermeus

et al. 2011

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…(11) This finding is consistent with another cohort of ALI survivors. (12) However, QOL ratings were comparable between patient and proxy in studies with non-ALI patients such as elective surgery(13), chronic disease(14) and general ICU patients. (15–18)…”

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Quality of Life Before Intensive Care Using EQ-5D

Dinglas

Gifford²,

Husain

et al. 2013

Critical Care Medicine

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Objective To compare patient’s retrospectively reported baseline quality of life before intensive care hospitalization with population norms and proxy reports. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting 13 intensive care units at 4 teaching hospitals in Baltimore, MD, USA. Patients 140 acute lung injury survivors and their designated proxies. Interventions Around the time of hospital discharge, both patients and proxies were asked to retrospectively estimate patients' baseline quality of life before hospital admission using the EQ-5D quality of life instrument. Measurements and Main Results Mean patient-rated EQ-5D visual analog scale scores and utility scores were significantly lower than population norms, but were significantly higher than proxy ratings. However, the magnitude of difference in average utility scores between patients and either population norms or proxies were not clinically important. For the 5 individual EQ-5D domains, kappa statistics revealed slight to fair agreement between patients and proxies. Bland-Altman plots demonstrated that for both the visual analog scale and utility scores, proxies underestimated scores when patients reported high ratings and overestimated scores for low patient ratings. Conclusion Patients retrospectively reported worse baseline health status before acute lung injury than population norms and better status than proxy reports; however, the magnitude of these differences in health status may not be clinically important. Proxies had only slight to fair agreement with patients in all 5 EQ-5D domains, attenuating patients’ more extreme ratings towards moderate scores. Caution is required when interpreting proxy retrospective reports of baseline health status for survivors of acute lung injury.

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“…e.g., Refs. [39,40]). A MOSES-Relative version coulddprovided the required psychometric features were fulfilleddbe used in addition to MOSES-Combi in special groups and expand the range of data sources used.…”

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Integration of patient and provider assessments of mobility and self-care resulted in unidimensional item-response theory scales

Farin

2009

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

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Proxy respondents reliably assessed the quality of life of elective cardiac surgery patients

Cited by 24 publications

References 28 publications

The relationship between in‐hospital mortality, readmission into the intensive care nursing unit and/or operating theatre and nurse staffing levels

The relationship between in‐hospital mortality, readmission into the intensive care nursing unit and/or operating theatre and nurse staffing levels

Quality of Life Before Intensive Care Using EQ-5D

Integration of patient and provider assessments of mobility and self-care resulted in unidimensional item-response theory scales

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