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Gil Ben-Horin
Published: Mar 16, 2017
A prospective observational cohort study performed at Barnes Jewish Hospital compared the change in a validated quality of life measure (VR-12) after elective surgery, to a global assessment measure. It also estimated the minimum clinically important difference (MCID) for change in VR-12 quality of life and aimed to describe this change by surgical specialty. Surgical specialty and all other variables were obtained from MetaVision. The results showed the two methods of quality of life assessment to be in poor agreement. The study authors conclude that clinicians should select an instrument based on their goals, using 2.5 points as the MCID for the VR-12. They propose that future studies should confirm the difference in quality of life changes across surgical specialties and explore the reasons for such differences.
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