title: Health-related quality of life after cardiac surgery.
abstract: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessments are designed to reflect a patient's perspective of how a disease has affected their overall health status. Patient-centered outcomes are of value both for risk assessment and as an outcome measure. Strategies for analyzing HRQOL data are inconsistent primarily because the data frequently do not meet underlying assumptions of traditional methods for statistical analyses and require a careful analytic approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio 44195, USA. kochc@ccf.org
authors.forename: Colleen Gorman
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: Farah
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khandwala
authors.forename: Eugene H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Blackstone
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011153:Population; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States