Self-reported health status and disease-specific quality of life one year after treatment for peripheral arterial disease in clinical practice

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Anne Sofie F LarsenJarlis Wesche

Abstract

VascuQoL-6 (VQ-6) is a disease-specific quality of life (QoL) instrument validated for use in clinical practice and vascular registries before and after treatment for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). To improve future interpretation of self-reported outcome, an unselected cohort was followed through one year to provide observational data after both conservative and invasive treatment. Consecutive patients with intermittent claudication (IC) or critical limb ischemia (CLI) were included. All patients completed VQ-6 and Short Form-36 (SF-36), and were evaluated with ankle-brachial index (ABI) measurement pre- and post-exercise, a constant load treadmill test and clinical consultation at baseline and after one year. Change statistics and correlation analysis were used to describe self-reported outcome after conservative and invasive treatment for PAD. One hundred seventy-one patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) were included, 70 (41%) female. 147 (86%) of the patients suffered from IC. 136 (80%) patients had one-year follow up, death, amputation and withdrawal were the major causes of loss to follow-up. Forty-eight patients (35%) evaluated their health to be unchanged compared to one year ago. There was a strong corre...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
amputation

Software Mentioned

SPSS
Qualimetric Health Outcomes Scoring
Swedvasc
VascuQoL
VascoQoL
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

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