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What are the effects of coronary artery bypass surgery on quality of life and return to work in patients with symptomatic coronary artery disease?
What are the effects of coronary artery bypass surgery on quality of life and return to work in patients with symptomatic coronary artery disease?
A 1981 Technology Assessment Forum examined the economic, ethical, legal, social, and quality-of-life implications of coronary artery bypass surgery.
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Reminds clinicians of longstanding non-clinical CABG factors; leaves open updated QoL and employment data in contemporary practice.
CORONARY artery bypass surgery (CABS), estimated to have been performed more than 100,000 times in the United States in 1980 at a total cost approaching $2 billion, poses a wide range of economic, ethical, legal, and social considerations. On April 21 through 23, 1981, the National Center for Health Care Technology (NCHCT), in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) convened a Technology Assessment Forum to examine these issues. Building on conclusions reached at a consensus development conference that the NHLBI held in conjunction with the NCHCT in December 1980, to explore scientific and clinical aspects of CABS, forum participants addressed six main areas: Quality of Life.—What are the effects of symptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD) on the quality of life of the patient and his spouse and family? How does CABS affect these? Rehabilitation and Return to Work.—What
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Willis et al. (1981) studied this question.
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