ICU sedation, delirium & recovery
Beyond Functional Outcomes: Exploring Quality of Life After Critical Illness—A Qualitative Study
Authors' conclusion
This study shows that perceived QoL after critical illness is impacted not only by patients' functional impairments but also by participation, support, environment, individual values, comparison, and coping.
Study context
- Population
- ICU survivors aged ≥16 years admitted to the ICU between July 2022 and January 2023, 7 hospitals in the Netherlands
- Participants
- 24 interviews
- Outcome
- Themes of experienced QoL
Methodological detailssemistructured interviews, purposive sampling, thematic content analysis, multicentre, Interviews performed between March and June 2024; recruitment until no new themes identified; coded independently by two researchers
- Semistructured interviews
- Purposive sampling
- Thematic content analysis
- Multicentre
- Interviews performed between March and June 2024; recruitment until no new themes identified; coded independently by two researchers
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Categories identified
28
Main themes: functional impairments, participation, support, environment, individual values, comparison, coping
7
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Original publication
Beyond Functional Outcomes: Exploring Quality of Life After Critical Illness—A Qualitative Study. Crit Care Med. Published 31 March 2025. doi:10.
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