Evaluating quality of life after intensive care

Survival after intensive care unit (ICU) admission was the outcome initially used to demonstrate the efficacy of that highly technological, and costly, environment [1]. However, mortality is an insufficient measure of ICU outcome, because the real aim of intensive care is that patients either return to their previous state of health, if suffering from an acute disease, or improve their state of health, if their illnesses were suitable for eradication.