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Available online /content/11/4/R78 Vol 11 No 4 Open Access Research Quality of life before intensive care unit admission is a predictor of survival 1,2 1 3,4 3 José GM Hofhuis , Peter E Spronk , Henk F van Stel , Augustinus JP Schrijvers and Jan Bakker2 1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Gelre Hospitals (location Lukas), Albert Schweitzerlaan, 7334 DZ Apeldoorn, The Netherlands 2Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Gravendijkwal 230, Rotterdam, 3015 CE, The Netherlands 3Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht, 3584 CX, The Netherlands 4Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef 2, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands Corresponding author: José GM Hofhuis, j.hofhuis@gelre.nl Received: 5 Mar 2007 Revisions requested: 5 Apr 2007 Revisions received: 22 Jun 2007 Accepted: 13 Jul 2007 Published: 13 Jul 2007 Critical Care 2007, 11:R78 (doi:10.1186/cc5970) This article is online at: /content/11/4/R78 © 2007 Hofhuis et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Predicting whether a critically ill patient will survive E). Classification tables were used to assess the sensitivity, intensive care treatment remains difficult. The advantages of a