Nord AS, Brorsson B; International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Meeting.
Annu Meet Int Soc Technol Assess Health Care Int Soc Technol Assess Health Care Meet. 1995; 11: Abstract No. 157.
SBU, Stockholm, Sweden.
One aim of the Swedish National Prospective Study of Indications for and Results of Coronary Revascularization is to compare patients (who are referred for CAD investigation and eventual revascularization) HRQOL at referral and at follow-up after 6, 12, and 24 months. The SWED-QUAL is used to collect information on HRQOL. It consists of 61 items that form 11 multi-item scales tapping aspects of physical, mental, social and general health selected from the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS). We present HRQOL among the first 800 CAD patients entered into the study and compare them to HRQOL among a random sample of 2500 individuals from the general Swedish population. The SWED-QUAL is self-administered and was handed over to the CAD patients by their referring physician and mailed to the general population sample. The response rate was 80 percent and 60 percent, respectively. (Telephone follow-up of mail survey non-responders in the general population sample showed that they had significantly higher HRQOL than responders to 12 of 16 items selected from the SWED-QUAL.) The results show that HRQOL among CAD patients is generally lower than in the general population. On scales scored from zero to 100, a difference of 20 points or more, (equal to or greater than 1 standard deviation) was observed on eight of the eleven scales. Female CAD patients scored lower than male CAD patients. The size of the difference in HRQOL was approximately the same irrespective of age among female CAD patients compared to the general population sample where as the difference was much greater among men with CAD aged 55-64 and 65-74 than it was among males with CAD aged 75-84.
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Keywords:
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Female
- Health
- Health Status
- Health Status Indicators
- Health Surveys
- Humans
- Life
- Male
- Prospective Studies
- Quality of Life
- hsrmtgs
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UI: 102215884
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