Healthcare trajectories before and after critical illness: population-based insight on diverse patients clusters.
Youenn JouanLeslie Grammatico-GuillonNoémie TeixeraClaire Hassen-KhodjaChristophe GaboritCharlotte Salmon-GandonnièreAntoine GuillonStephan EhrmannPublished in: Annals of intensive care (2019)
For 83% of ARDS/septic shock survivors, critical illness appears to have a pivotal role in healthcare trajectories, with a switch from a low and stable healthcare use prior to ICU to a sustained higher healthcare recourse 2 years after ICU discharge. This underpins the hypothesis of long-term critical illness and PICS-related quantifiable consequences in healthcare use, measurable at a population level.