Main description:

This book provides a guide to the assessment of patient reported outcomes measures and quality of life in cardiovascular interventions, which have become a fundamental component of decision making in bedside medicine, health policy, health economics, and public health. Cardiac surgery, cardiovascular interventions, vascular interventions, and the core principles of quality of life are all covered.

This book is the first book to demonstrate how clinicians and policy makers can easily get access to a single source of quality of life and patient reported outcomes measures evidence to help them make the best informed decisions in the field of cardiovascular interventions.

This is a rapidly emerging field and the book would be relevant to doctors, healthcare scientists, allied-health professionals, healthcare managers, medical statisticians, healthcare economists, and consultants working in healthcare.

Contents:

Unveiling the concept of minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in cardiac surgery
Quality of life following the use of mechanical circulatory support devices
What Factors Predict an Improved Quality of Life Outcome Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery? A Systematic Review
Thoracic Aortic Surgery
Patient Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life following Heart Transplantation
QOL and PROMS following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Patient-Reported Quality of Life after Stand-alone and Concomitant Arrhythmia Surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Procedures
Percutaneous Interventions in Adult Congenital Heart Disease
The Impact of Valve Surgery on the Health-Related Quality of Life of Elderly Patients: Systematic Review
Quality of life after mitral valve and tricuspid valve surgery
Quality of Life and patient reported outcomes in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery patients
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Quality of Life and Patient Reported Outcome Measures Following Carotid Artery Intervention
Quality of Life and Patient Reported Outcome Measures Following Percutaneous Aortic Intervention for Aortic Aneurysms and Dissection
QOL and PROMS in Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmia
Patient Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life following Percutaneous and Surgical Intervention for Subclavian Artery Disease
QoL and PROMS following Percutaneous and Surgical Intervention for Renal Artery Disease
Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes for Endovascular and Open Surgical Interventions in Aortoiliac and Femoropopliteal Steno-occlusive Arterial Disease
Infrapopliteal arteries (classical and percutaneous)
Quality-of-life (QOL) and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) following intervention for Chronic Venous Disease