1. Changes in quality of life associated with surgical risk in elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
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Romero, Paola Severo, Souza, Emiliane Nogueira, Rodrigues, Juliane, and Moraes, Maria Antonieta
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QUALITY of life , *ANALYSIS of variance , *STATISTICAL correlation , *HEALTH surveys , *CARDIAC surgery , *LONGITUDINAL method , *RISK assessment , *SCALE analysis (Psychology) , *T-test (Statistics) , *COMORBIDITY , *STATISTICAL power analysis , *PRE-tests & post-tests , *OLD age - Abstract
The study aims to verify quality of life of elderly patients submitted to cardiac surgery, and correlating surgical risk to health-related quality of life instrument domains. Prospective cohort study, performed at a cardiology hospital. It included elderly patients who had undergone elective cardiac surgery. Pre- and postoperative quality of life was evaluated by applying the World Health Organization Quality of Life- Old (WHOQOL-OLD) scale and the Short-Form Health Survey ( SF-36) questionnaire. Surgical risk was stratified using the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation ( Euro SCORE). Fifty-four patients, mostly men (64.8%), were included, with a mean age of 69.3 ± 5.7 years. The eight domains of the SF-36 questionnaire, and the four facets presented for the WHOQOL-OLD scale showed improved quality of life 6 months after surgery ( P < 0.001). No difference was found in the association of Euro SCORE with the domains of the health-related quality of life instruments. The data showed improved quality of life of elderly people submitted to cardiac surgery, unrelated to surgical risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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