Anil N Makam, Judith Burnfield, Ed Prettyman, Oanh Kieu Nguyen, Nancy Wu, Edie Espejo, Cinthia Blat, W John Boscardin, E Wesley Ely, James C Jackson, Kenneth E Covinsky, John Votto
OBJECTIVES: Understanding the long-term effects of severe COVID-19 illness on survivors is essential for effective pandemic recovery planning. Therefore, we investigated impairments among hospitalized adults discharged to long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) for prolonged severe COVID-19 illness who survived 1 year. DESIGN: The Recovery After Transfer to an LTACH for COVID-19 (RAFT COVID) study was a national, multicenter, prospective longitudinal cohort study...
April 10, 2024: Critical Care Medicine