ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2005
Influence of age and gender on quality-of-life outcomes after cholecystectomy.
Article in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Effects of Intra-abdominally Instilled Isotonic Saline on Pain, Recovery, and Health-Related Quality-of-Life Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Randomized Prospective Double-Blind Controlled Study.World journal of surgery · 2015Trial
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- Index admission laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis restores Gastrointestinal Quality of Life Index (GIQLI) score.Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery · 2018Article
- Episodic Abdominal Pain Characteristics Are Not Associated with Clinically Relevant Improvement of Health Status After Cholecystectomy.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2016Article
- Gastrointestinal quality-of-life after cholecystectomy: indication predicts gastrointestinal symptoms and abdominal pain.World journal of surgery · 2014Article
- Comparisons of prediction models of quality of life after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a longitudinal prospective study.PloS one · 2012Article
- Health-related quality of life in patients undergoing cholecystectomy.The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences · 2011Article
- Long-term outcomes of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a prospective piecewise linear regression analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2011Article
- Registration of health-related quality of life in a cohort of patients undergoing cholecystectomy.ISRN gastroenterology · 2011Article
- The minimal clinically important difference in the Gastrointestinal Quality-of-Life Index after cholecystectomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2009Article
- Post-cholecystectomy quality of life: a prospective multicenter cohort study of its associations with preoperative functional status and patient demographics.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2009Article
- Long-term quality of life after endoscopic dilation of strictured colorectal or colocolonic anastomoses.Surgical endoscopy · 2008Article
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Abstract
Few studies have assessed the role of sociodemographic characteristics on outcomes after a cholecystectomy. Our goal was to evaluate the influence of age and gender on the health related quality of life (HRQoL) changes after cholecystectomy in this prospective observational study of consecutive patients undergoing cholecystectomy. Patients completed the SF-36 and the Gastrointestinal Quality of Life Index (GIQLI) before intervention and 3 months later. The influence of age, gender, and the pre-intervention health status on the HRQoL changes was studied by multivariate regression analysis. Older patients had poorer HRQoL and their post-intervention improvement was lower than younger patients. Compared with men, women had worse health status before the intervention measured with both HRQoL tools. In the unadjusted analysis women had greater improvements than men, measured by the GIQLI, but not with the SF-36. However, after controlling for other relevant variables, the SF-36 measured lower improvements in women more often than men, but the GIQLI showed similar results for both. For men and women, the lower the pre-intervention health status the higher the post-operative improvement. Women presented with worse health status before the intervention and less improvement post-operatively after adjustments. The pre-intervention health status has an important role explaining changes after the intervention. A gender-related difference exists between what a generic and a disease-specific HRQoL instrument captures when measuring HRQoL improvement after cholecystectomy.
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