Impact of Complications After Cardiac Surgery on One-Year Patient Reported Outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: While cardiac surgical patients have PRO scores similar to the general population, complications after cardiac surgery continue to negatively influence patient quality of life one-year after surgery. Using the NIH-PROMIS, prolonged ventilation and renal failure have the largest impact on one-year patient reported outcomes. PMID: 31323207 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - July 15, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Mehaffey JH, Hawkins RB, Charles EJ, Kron IL, Ailawadi G, Kern JA, Roeser ME, Kozower B, Teman NR Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research