Summary
OBJECTIVE: Functional capacity is commonly impaired after critical illness. We sought to clarify the relationship between objective measures of physical activity, self-reported measures of health-related quality of life, and clinician reported global functioning capacity (frailty) in such patients, as well as the impact of prior chronic disease status on these functional outcomes. DESIGN: Prospective outcome study of critical illness survivors. SETTING: Community-based follow-up. PATIENTS: Participants of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Study in Critical Care: Longitudinal Evaluation Study (NCT01106300), invasively ventilated for more than 48 hours and on the ICU greater than 7 days. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Physical activity levels (health-related quality of life
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