"We want to reduce the city's cost of delivering services, but we also want to support a baseline quality of life — the key is how do we balance that out?" Ms. Winters said.
The socio-demographic, clinical data, the CR stratification, the values for the baseline quality of life questionnaires, and MIDAS scores are described on Table 1.
Linear regression models were fit to explore whether baseline quality of life (Q-LES-Q) and functioning (LIFE-RIFT) were associated with baseline demographics, clinical severity, social disadvantage, and current psychiatric comorbid conditions.
A last group of studies showed influences on HRQoL values, e.g. age and baseline quality of life (QoL) [Bozcuk et al.], the cognitive function [Chen], as well as clinical parameters Morita et al. [14, 17, 32].
Baseline quality of life measures indicate substantial disease burden, as measured by mean (SD) MSQ (56.2 [12.4]), EQ-5D index (0.47 [0.38]), and EQ-5D VAS scores (47.7 [25.1]).
However, the self-reported quality of life at follow-up (1 to 6 years after admission to ICU) was significantly lower than in the general population (68.4 ± 15.1 versus 72.5 ± 18.2), but it is possible that the patients who underwent surgery in the first place had a worse baseline quality of life than population controls.
Patient-reported quality of life in this disease area is low – a poster by Iyer et al. showed OIC patients with chronic non-cancer pain to have a baseline quality of life of approximately 0.45 using the EuroQol 5 Dimension 3-level (EQ-5D-3 L) [4].
For example, missing post-baseline quality of life data may occur in patients with low baseline quality of life.
However, few studies have evaluated baseline quality of life (QoL) as a predictor of survival.
