1.5 years after: no substantial differences in health-related quality of life by type of coronary revascularisation among German health insurance beneficiaries
EM Bitzer, TG Grobe, FW Schwartz, H Dörning · Das Gesundheitswesen · 2009 · Heft 01
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Aims: To explore the level of health-related quality of life (HRQL) in usual patients after surgical and percutaneous approaches to coronary revascularisation. Methods: We surveyed all beneficiaries of a large German health insurance, who underwent coronary revascularisation in the year 2005, were younger than 75 years of age, and survived until the time the survey took place (on average 1.5 year after the index-procedure) (n=2.810). We used German validated versions of the Short-Form 36 (SF-36) and the Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ). The eight SF-36 subscales and the five SAQ-subscales are scored from 0 to…