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Until recently, survival to hospital discharge was the primary outcome considered in reports concerning populations of critically ill patients. But a body of knowledge is now being developed about longer-term outcomes in survivors of critical illnesses, including reports about their health-related quality of life and conditions that impair that quality.¹ The inherent challenge is to devise strategies for preventing or minimizing such sequelae. The article by Herridge and colleagues in this issue of the Journal² provides important new information pointing in a direction that could eventually lead to the development of such a strategy and charging us with expanding the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.

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