| Constructs/concepts | Score/instrument |
---|---|---|
Socio-demographic characteristics | age, gender | Â |
living situation, presence of informal caregiver(s), marital status | Â | |
nationality | Â | |
educational and professional level, employment | Â | |
subjective social status | MacArthur-Scale [23] | |
General medical characteristics | height, weight, waist circumference | Â |
history of smoking, current smoking | Â | |
comorbidity | according to SAPS III [32] | |
history of psychiatric disorders | Â | |
Medical characteristics relating to ARDS and its treatment | cause and severity of ARDS | according to the “Berlin-Definition” [15] |
prognostic scores at ICU admission | ||
organ dysfunction/failure | SOFA [33] | |
blood gas analysis | Â | |
ventilation parameters | Â | |
presence of delirium | CAM-ICU, RASS [41] | |
treatment with supportive care measures: ECMO, NO-inhalation, prone-positioning, muscle relaxant medication, tracheotomy | Â | |
complications | Â | |
length of ICU stay | Â | |
Characteristics of health institution use | length of hospital stay before referral to specialized centre, duration of inter-hospital transport, length and type of rehabilitative measures | Â |
outpatient health-service use | Â | |
Psycho-social characteristics | prevalence of psychopathological syndromes: major depressive syndrome, panic syndrome, PTSD, alcohol abuse | |
disability | ||
social support | F-SOZU [30] | |
healthrelated quality of life | SF-12 [21] | |
return to work | Â |