Quality of life and persistent symptoms after hospitalization for COVID-19. A prospective observational study comparing ICU with non-ICU patients

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Background: Hospitalized COVID-19 patients are prone to develop persistent symptoms and to show reduced quality of life following hospital admission.

Methods: Prospective cohort study of COVID-19 patients admitted to a hospital from March 1 to April 30, 2020. The primary outcome was to compare health related quality of life and persistent symptoms six months after hospital admission, of COVID-19 patients who required ICU admission with those who did not.

Results: Among the 242 patients hospitalized during the defined period of time, 44 (18.2%) needed ICU admission. Forty (16.5%) patients died during hospital admission. Two hundred and two (83.5%) patients were discharged alive from the hospital. At six months, 183 (75.6%) patients completed the questionnaires (32 ICU patients and 151 non ICU patients). Ninety-six (52.4%) reported decreased quality of life and 143 (78.1%) described persistent symptoms. More ICU patients showed worsening of their quality of life (71.9 vs. 43.7%, P = 0.004). There were no differences in the proportion of patients with persistent symptoms between ICU and non ICU patients (87.5 vs. 76.2%, P = 0.159). ICU patients showed more frequently dyspnea on exertion (78.1 vs. 47.7%, P = 0.02), dyspnea on light exertion (37.5 vs. 4.6%, P < 0.001), and asthenia (56.3 vs. 29.1, P = 0.003).

Conclusions: Survivors of COVID-19 needing hospitalization had persistent symptoms and a decline in the quality of life. ICU patients referred a large decrease of their quality of life compared with non ICU patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:69

Enthalten in:

Revista espanola de anestesiologia y reanimacion - 69(2022), 6 vom: 08. Juni, Seite 326-335

Sprache:

Spanisch

Weiterer Titel:

Calidad de vida y síntomas persistentes tras hospitalización por COVID-19. Estudio observacional prospectivo comparando pacientes con o sin ingreso en UCI

Beteiligte Personen:

Taboada, M [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez, N [VerfasserIn]
Díaz-Vieito, M [VerfasserIn]
Domínguez, M J [VerfasserIn]
Casal, A [VerfasserIn]
Riveiro, V [VerfasserIn]
Cariñena, A [VerfasserIn]
Moreno, E [VerfasserIn]
Pose, A [VerfasserIn]
Valdés, L [VerfasserIn]
Álvarez, J [VerfasserIn]
Seoane-Pillado, T [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute respiratory distress (ARDS)
COVID-19
Critically ill patients
English Abstract
Functional status
Health-related quality of life
Journal Article
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.redar.2021.05.009

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NLM327240393