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Health-related quality of life evaluated by the eight-item short form after cardiovascular surgery

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Abstract

Purpose

Owing to advances in cardiovascular surgery, patients with cardiovascular disease require improvement of health-related quality of life (QOL) than before. We measured the QOL of patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery using the eight-item Short Form (SF-8) and assessed its usefulness.

Methods

This was a prospective repeated-measures observational study. The SF-8 questionnaire was completed through interviews with 117 consecutive adult patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery at a single center (Nagara Medical Center, Japan) from April 2006 to March 2008. The SF-8 was evaluated before surgery and at 7 days, 1 month, and 6 months after surgery. The physical and mental scores over time were assessed.

Results

Regarding physical status, compared with the normal population, the patients’ scores were worse preoperatively and had deteriorated 7 days postoperatively; they gradually got closer to preoperative status a month after the procedure. At 6 months after surgery, all physical scores were higher than before surgery. The mental scores, including a mental component summary score, were inferior to those of the normal population until 1 month postoperatively, and they reached those of the normal population at 6 months.

Conclusion

The SF-8 changed with the postoperative time course. It was a useful tool for analyzing the physical and mental QOL of patients who underwent cardiovascular surgery.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Gifu Heart Center, 4-14-4 Yabutaminami, Gifu, 500-8384, Japan

    Takayoshi Kato & Shinji Tomita

  2. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Nagara Medical Center, Gifu, Japan

    Shinji Tomita, Nobuhiro Handa & Yo-ichiro Ueno

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Kato, T., Tomita, S., Handa, N. et al. Health-related quality of life evaluated by the eight-item short form after cardiovascular surgery. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 58, 612–616 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-010-0663-2

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