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Trajectories of recovery and dysfunction after acute illness, with implications for clinical trial design

Theodore J Iwashyna. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2012.

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Prototypical trajectories of recovery. The upper gray line extending past critical illness is the counterfactual trajectory of functioning that would have occurred, had the patient not developed critical illness.

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