OBJECTIVES: To measure the health status of @entity3124 @entity1 prior to hospital admission and to study the relationship between prior health status (PHS) and hospital mortality. DESIGN: 523 @entity1 admitted to the intensive care department from October 1994 to June 1995 were included consecutively in the study. Health status 3 months prior to admission was assessed retrospectively by proxies using the EuroQol 5D (EQ-5D) and the Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (KF). @entity1 were classified into four admission categories: @entity130 , scheduled surgery, unscheduled surgery and other medical conditions. SETTING: Department of Intensive Medicine, University Hospital of Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain. @entity1 : 84 @entity130 @entity1 , 239 scheduled surgery @entity1 , 57 unscheduled surgery @entity1 and 143 @entity1 with other medical conditions. INTERVENTIONS: The descriptive system and visual analogue scale (VAS) of the EQ-5D and the K.F. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Using proxy responses we found that @entity130 @entity1 had the best PHS and scheduled surgery @entity1 the worst. There were statistically significant differences in mean VAS scores and all EQ-5D dimensions, except self-care, when @entity130 @entity1 or scheduled surgery @entity1 were compared with the other admission categories. No significant differences were found on these variables between unscheduled surgery @entity1 and medical @entity1 . We found no statistically significant differences in PHS health status between @entity1 who died and those who survived, either within each admission category or in the sample as a whole. CONCLUSIONS: The PHS of @entity3124 @entity1 varied according to admission category. Given the instruments used and population studied, there was no association between PHS and hospital outcome.

Proxy-perceived prior health status and hospital outcome among the XXXX : is there any relationship?

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients', 'PATIENTS'] @entity3124 :: ('MESH:D016638', 'Disease') :: ['critically ill'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['trauma injury']
@entity3124 :: (MESH:D016638,Disease) :: ['critically ill']
