Long-term Outcome

Working Group's Leads

Objectives

  • To enhance the understanding of long-term outcomes in critical care, guiding treatment decisions, and improving patient outcomes and quality of life beyond the acute care phase.

Tasks

  • To evaluate whether treatments that confer early effects similarly impact long-term outcomes;
  • To study treatments which enhance long-term recovery, and numerous candidate interventions warrant study post-critical illness from ARDS;
  • To improve critical care medicine research by incorporating patient-centered measures into the evaluation of interventions