• L Orwelius, C Lobo, A Teixeira Pinto, A Carneiro, A Costa-Pereira, and C Granja.
• Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine of Porto, CIDES, Porto, Portugal; Faculty of Medicine of Porto, CINTESIS - Center for Research in Health Technologies and Health Systems, Porto, Portugal; Department of Intensive Care, Linkoping University, Linköping, Sweden; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, County Council of Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden.
• Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2013 Oct 1;57(9):1201-5.

IntroductionThe aim of the present multicentre study is to assess health-related quality of life in patients with community-acquired sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock (CAS) 6 months after discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU) and to compare the health-related quality of life of the ICU survivors with CAS with ICU survivors with other ICU diagnoses.MethodsProspective, multicentre study in nine combined medical and surgical ICUs in Portugal. Health-related quality of life was assessed 6 months after ICU stay, using EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) mailed to patients. ICU-related factors were obtained from the local ICU database and the local database for the SACiUCI follow-up study.ResultsA total of 313 (52%) surviving patients answered the questionnaire, and of these 91 (29%) were admitted for CAS. There were no significant differences in health-related quality of life between the two study groups.ConclusionPatients admitted to ICU for CAS did not perceived different health-related quality of life compared with ICU patients admitted for other diagnoses.© 2013 The Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica Foundation. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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