Population
Patients undergoing aortic valve and thoracic aortic surgery
Design
Review
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Patient preferences should guide cardiac surgery decisions; leaves open need for prospective HRQoL data before practice change.
There is a critical need for prospective, standardized health-related quality of life measurements in patients undergoing aortic valve and thoracic aortic surgery to improve shared decision-making and value-based care.
Heer et al. (2017) studied this question.
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