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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2010 Oct 27;304(16):1787–1794. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1553

Figure 4. Change in Individual ADLs and IADLs.

Figure 4

The proportion of patients with difficulty in each of the activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living is shown. The last survey before hospitalization is compared to the first survey after severe sepsis. Patients are grouped by functional status as in Figure 3.

Interpretive Example: No single ADL or IADL accounted for the worsened functional status among survivors of severe sepsis. Instead, there was a wide range of new difficulties across the array of activities.