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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2023

Evaluation of the Quality of Life of Patients with Myasthenia Gravis in Greece.

Afrodite Aggelina, Eleftheria Karampli, Georgios Mavrovounis, Ioannis Boutsikos, Ioannis Pantazopoulos, Sotirios Kakavas, Elpida Pavi, Kostas Athanasakis

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Afrodite AggelinaDepartment of Public Health Policy, University of West Attica Athens, 115 21 Athens, Greece.
Eleftheria KarampliLaboratory for Health Technology Assessment, Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, 115 21 Athens, Greece.
Georgios MavrovounisDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 415 00 Larissa, Greece.
Ioannis BoutsikosDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 415 00 Larissa, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1174-6268
Ioannis PantazopoulosDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 415 00 Larissa, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-8846-519X
Sotirios KakavasICU, Henry Dunant Hospital Center, 115 26 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0079-2477
Elpida PaviLaboratory for Health Technology Assessment, Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, 115 21 Athens, Greece.
Kostas AthanasakisLaboratory for Health Technology Assessment, Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, 115 21 Athens, Greece.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myasthenia Gravis (MG) patients often report an affected quality of life (QoL). The aim of the current study was to evaluate the QoL of patients with MG in Greece using a specific tool. A cross-sectional online survey was performed. Adult patients were invited to participate. A questionnaire incorporating the MG-QOL15r scale was distributed, following its translation and cultural adaptation into Greek. Overall, 99 valid responses were submitted. The median age (interquartile range) of the participants was 48.50 (13.50) years and 76.80% were females. One third of the patients mentioned that they could not work/changed jobs after their diagnosis (28.30%) and that they face severe restriction of their everyday activities (26.30%). The mean MG-QOL15r score was 13.50 ± 7.70. Patients with important restriction of everyday activities (

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GreeceMGQoL15MG-QOL15rmyasthenia gravisneuromuscular disorderspatient-reported outcomesquality of life

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