title: Seven lessons from 20 years of follow-up of intensive care unit survivors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Through a personal narrative, the authors discuss the lessons they have learned from 20 years of intensive care follow-up and rehabilitation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There is a greater understanding of the legacies of the physical, psychological and cognitive problems after critical illness, and new momentum toward developing and delivering practical care to both survivors of intensive care and their relatives.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The need and demand for care after critical illness is now firmly established.
authors.affiliation: Division of Metabolic and Cellular Medicine, School of Clinical Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. rdg@liverpool.ac.uk
authors.forename: Richard D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Griffiths
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009737:Nursing Records; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D014956:Writing