Reports outline depression prevention study results from University of Pittsburgh, Department of Critical Care Medicine

Investigators publish new data in the report "Informal caregiver burden among survivors of prolonged mechanical ventilation. Although caregiver burden is well described in chronic illness, few studies have examined burden among caregivers of survivors of critical illness. In existing studies, it is unclear whether the observed burden is a consequence of critical illness or of preexisting patient illness. To describe 1-yr longitudinal outcomes for caregivers of patients who survived critical illness, and to compare depression risk between caregivers of patients with and without pre-intensive care unit (ICU) functional dependency," investigators in the United States report.

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