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Each dimension captures three levels of functioning, indicating no problems, some problems and extreme problems in the specified dimension.
When the follow-up of the patients after hospitalization in an ICU was even longer, such as 2 years after major surgery, almost 60% of patients reported having moderate or extreme problems in usual activities: 56% had pain, and 56% had mobility problems [17].
Extreme problems in any of the EQ-5D dimensions were indicated by 8.7%.
We calculated the proportion of respondents reporting no problems, moderate problems, and extreme problems in each of the EQ-5D dimensions.
The proportion of patients reporting extreme problems in the two subgroups with no incident fractures (groups B and D) decreased during follow-up.
For each of these questions the respondent may choose one of three statements indicating they either have no problems, some problems or extreme problems in that domain.
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The highest frequency of extreme problems was in the usual activities and pain/discomfort domains.
Each dimension has three levels; no problem, some problems, and extreme problems, resulting in 243 'scored' health states.
Patients worsened in all parameters of the five dimensions of the EQ-5D after 30-days: The extreme problems level increased in the mobility dimension from 12.1 % at ICU to 42.1 %, self-care from 25.8 % to 52.6 %; usual activities from 19.7 % to 68.4 %; pain/discomfort from 7.6 to 13.2 and anxiety/depression from 4.5%to7.9%.9 %.
Descriptive results from the five domains of the EQ-5D instrument showed most frequent severe (25.5%) respectively extreme problems (8.9%) in pain and discomfort, followed by daily activities (severe: 20.8%; extreme: 2.2).
It is possible that patients experiencing extreme problems were insufficiently represented in the study sample used to develop the mapping function, and therefore the predictive errors are large for extremely impaired health states.
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