Health-related quality-of-life and health-utility in critical care: validation of EQ-5D-5L patient and proxy tools & study of health-related quality-of-life in critically ill patient populations (QUICC EQ-5D)

Mortality is a well-established patient-important outcome in critical care studies. In contrast, morbidity is less uniformly reported (given the myriad of critical care illnesses and complications of each) but may have a common end-impact on a patient’s functional capacity and health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL). Survival with a poor quality-of-life may not be acceptable depending on individual patient values and preferences. Hence, as mortality decreases within critical care, it becomes increasingly important to measure intensive care unit (ICU) survivor HRQoL.

The following editorial has been published as part of this study: Health-related quality-of-life and health-utility reporting in critical care