Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Jul 2024
Multicenter StudyOne-Year Recovery Among Survivors of Prolonged Severe COVID-19: A National Multicenter Cohort.
Understanding the long-term effects of severe COVID-19 illness on survivors is essential for effective pandemic recovery planning. Therefore, we investigated impairments among hospitalized adults discharged to long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) for prolonged severe COVID-19 illness who survived 1 year. ⋯ Nearly two-thirds of survivors of among the most prolonged severe COVID-19 illness had persistent impairments at 1 year that resembled post-intensive care syndrome after critical illness plus debility from hospital-acquired complications.