Quality of Life 12 Months After Cardiac Surgery

Quality of Life 12 Months After Cardiac Surgery

Cardiac surgical patients entering the hospital for operation were voluntarily recruited to participate a 12 month follow- up of health related quality of life (QOL)

Cardiac surgical patients entering the hospital for operation were voluntarily recruited to participate a 12 month follow- up of health related quality of life based on established QOL measurements with EuroQol quality of life 5 dimensional 3 level (EQ-5D-3L) description system at preoperative, 6 months and 12 months postoperatively. The study started on May 2013 and ended at the end of 2018. The data has been analyzed for publication in 2021. The total number of patients reached 1594.

Inclusion Criteria:

• elective or urgent cardiac surgery (open heart procedure to valves or ascending aorta /arch, on-pump or off-pump surgery to the coronary arteries )
• willingness to participate,
• ability to comprehend Finnish language

Exclusion Criteria:

• emergency surgery (with no time to introduce the study in good time)
• not willing to participate,
• blind or other disturbance in seeing,
• inability to comprehend Finnish language