Why the study?
Does preoperative quality of life (EQ-5D and EQ-VAS) predict hospital and 30-day mortality in patients undergoing elective isolated CABG?
Population
2501 patients undergoing elective isolated coronary artery bypass graft, mean age 65.3 ± 9.4 years, mean…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 days
Authors
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EQ-5D and EQ-VAS show poor mortality discrimination after CABG; leaves open any adjunctive role in risk models pending validation.
Does preoperative quality of life (EQ-5D and EQ-VAS) predict hospital and 30-day mortality in patients undergoing elective isolated CABG?
Preoperative quality of life scores (EQ-5D and EQ-VAS) have poor discriminative ability for predicting hospital or 30-day mortality after elective CABG and should not be used in isolation for surgical decision-making.
Horst et al. (2012) studied this question.
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