TY - JOUR
T1 - An exploratory study of long-term outcome measures in critical illness survivors
T2 - construct validity of physical activity, frailty, and health-related quality of life measures
AU - McNelly, Angela S.
AU - Rawal, Jai
AU - Shrikrishna, Dinesh
AU - Hopkinson, Nicholas S.
AU - Moxham, John
AU - Harridge, Stephen D.
AU - Hart, Nicholas
AU - Montgomery, Hugh E.
AU - Puthucheary, Zudin A.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - Objective: Functional capacity is commonly impaired after critical illness. We sought to clarify the relationship between objective measures of physical activity, self-reported measures of health-related quality of life, and clinician reported global functioning capacity (frailty) in such patients, as well as the impact of prior chronic disease status on these functional outcomes. Design: Prospective outcome study of critical illness survivors. Setting: Community-based follow-up. Patients: Participants of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Study in Critical Care: Longitudinal Evaluation Study (NCT01106300), invasively ventilated for more than 48 hours and on the ICU greater than 7 days. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: Physical activity levels (health-related quality of life [36-item short-form health survey] and daily step counts [accelerometry]) were compared to norm-based or healthy control scores, respectively. Controls for frailty (Clinical Frailty Score) were non-morbid, age- and gender-matched to survivors. Ninety-one patients were recruited on ICU admission: 41 were contacted for post-discharge assessment, and data were collected from 30 (14 female; mean age, 55.3 yr [95% CI, 48.3-62.3]; mean post-discharge, 576 d [95% CI, 539-614]). Patients' mean daily step count (5,803; 95% CI, 4,792-6,813) was lower than that in controls (11,735; 95% CI, 10,928-12,542; p <0.001), and lower in those with preexisting chronic disease than without (2,989 [95% CI, 776-5,201] vs 7,737 [95% CI, 4,907-10,567]; p = 0.013). Physical activity measures (accelerometry, health-related quality of life, and frailty) demonstrated good construct validity across all three tools. Step variability (from sd) was highly correlated with daily steps (r 2 = 0.67; p <0.01) demonstrating a potential boundary constraint. Conclusions: Subjective and objective measures of physical activity are all informative in ICU survivors. They are all reduced 18 months post-discharge in ICU survivors, and worse in those with pre-admission chronic disease states. Investigating interventions to improve functional capacity in ICU survivors will require stratification based on the presence of premorbidity.
AB - Objective: Functional capacity is commonly impaired after critical illness. We sought to clarify the relationship between objective measures of physical activity, self-reported measures of health-related quality of life, and clinician reported global functioning capacity (frailty) in such patients, as well as the impact of prior chronic disease status on these functional outcomes. Design: Prospective outcome study of critical illness survivors. Setting: Community-based follow-up. Patients: Participants of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Study in Critical Care: Longitudinal Evaluation Study (NCT01106300), invasively ventilated for more than 48 hours and on the ICU greater than 7 days. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: Physical activity levels (health-related quality of life [36-item short-form health survey] and daily step counts [accelerometry]) were compared to norm-based or healthy control scores, respectively. Controls for frailty (Clinical Frailty Score) were non-morbid, age- and gender-matched to survivors. Ninety-one patients were recruited on ICU admission: 41 were contacted for post-discharge assessment, and data were collected from 30 (14 female; mean age, 55.3 yr [95% CI, 48.3-62.3]; mean post-discharge, 576 d [95% CI, 539-614]). Patients' mean daily step count (5,803; 95% CI, 4,792-6,813) was lower than that in controls (11,735; 95% CI, 10,928-12,542; p <0.001), and lower in those with preexisting chronic disease than without (2,989 [95% CI, 776-5,201] vs 7,737 [95% CI, 4,907-10,567]; p = 0.013). Physical activity measures (accelerometry, health-related quality of life, and frailty) demonstrated good construct validity across all three tools. Step variability (from sd) was highly correlated with daily steps (r 2 = 0.67; p <0.01) demonstrating a potential boundary constraint. Conclusions: Subjective and objective measures of physical activity are all informative in ICU survivors. They are all reduced 18 months post-discharge in ICU survivors, and worse in those with pre-admission chronic disease states. Investigating interventions to improve functional capacity in ICU survivors will require stratification based on the presence of premorbidity.
KW - critical illness
KW - intensive care
KW - motor activity
KW - outcome assessment (health care)
KW - recovery of function
KW - survivors
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U2 - 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001645
DO - 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001645
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84961221126
SN - 0090-3493
VL - 44
SP - e362-e369
JO - Critical Care Medicine
JF - Critical Care Medicine
IS - 6
ER -