Measuring family satisfaction with care and quality of dying in the intensive care unit: does patient age matter?
The FS-ICU and QODD questionnaires performed differently across patient age groups. Assessments of family satisfaction and quality of dying and death were higher in the oldest group, particularly in the area of clinician-family communication. Studies of the dying experience of older adults may not generalize to patients of other ages, and study instruments should be validated among different age groups.
The IPSS is lower in patients with HT treated with ARB. Other drugs for HT, including ACE-I and CCB, did not improve the IPSS.