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Acta medica Croatica : Časopis Akademije medicinskih znanosti Hrvatske, Vol. 72 No. 4, 2018.

Review article

POSTOPERATIVE HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY

SANJA SAKAN orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9551-413X ; Magdalena Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia
ZDENKO POVŠIĆ-ČEVRA ; Magdalena Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia
VLADO JURANKO ; Magdalena Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia
KATARINA TOMULIĆ BRUSICH ; Magdalena Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia
MLADEN NOVKOSKI ; Klinika za kardiovaskularne bolesti Magdalena, Krapinske Toplice, Hrvatska
DAVORKA PRAJDIĆ-PREDRIJEVAC ; Magdalena Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia
ZLATKO BAUDOIN ; Magdalena Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia
MLADEN PREDRIJEVAC ; Magdalena Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia
ANDRIJA ŠKOPLJANAC-MAČINA ; Magdalena Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia
ZVONIMIR ANTE KORDA ; Magdalena Special Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia

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Abstract

Over the past four decades, decreasing morbidity and mortality rates of cardiac surgery patients have been noticed. However, the postoperative health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is becoming the key indicator of cardiac surgical outcome. Postoperative HRQoL is described as the impact of invasive medical procedures on functional status of patients and the ability and required time patients can proceed with their ordinary life. QoL is measured by self-report questionnaires, which according to accessible studies, are a subjective, valid, consistent and reliable way of patient QoL rating. Implementing preoperative QoL assessment in everyday practice can help in early identifying the patients with worse surgical outcome. Also, timely perioperative clinical optimization can be applied. Moreover, patients and their families are more properly informed about the consequences of cardiac procedure and its impact on the patient postoperative functional status.

Keywords

coronary artery bypass graft; coronary artery disease; outcomes; quality of life

Hrčak ID:

216548

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/216548

Publication date:

30.1.2019.

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