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Cost-Effectiveness of Postintensive Care Clinics

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Critical care survivors have ongoing physical and psychological problems affecting quality of life after discharge from the ICU. An increasing awareness of this problem has led to the organization of post-ICU clinics in which a team of healthcare specialists treat the survivors of critical illness. Despite failure to prove benefit from this intervention, the number of post-ICU clinics keeps growing. In times of financial pressure on healthcare systems, one should question the organization of systems that are not proven to be helpful. According to two landmark trials (RECOVER and PRaCTICaL) that studied the cost-effectiveness of post-ICU clinics, their practice should be abandoned given their lack of benefit with regard to effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.

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  1. Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium

    X. Willaert

  2. Division of Critical Care, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai & the Chennai Critical Care Consultants Group, Chennai, TN, India

    Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan

  3. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

    B. H. Cuthbertson

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Charles Preiser

  2. Respiratory and CCM, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Margaret Herridge

  3. Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France

    Elie Azoulay

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Willaert, X., Vijayaraghavan, B.K.T., Cuthbertson, B.H. (2020). Cost-Effectiveness of Postintensive Care Clinics. In: Preiser, JC., Herridge, M., Azoulay, E. (eds) Post-Intensive Care Syndrome. Lessons from the ICU. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24250-3_26

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