Hospital infections and health-related quality of life after cardiac surgery: a multicenter survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent research suggested that hospital infections are a predictive marker for physical non-recovery one year after cardiothoracic surgery. The purpose of this study was to explore whether this risk factor is etiologic. Additional, the influence of a potential effect modifying factor, diabetes mellitus, was investigated.

Methods

In this multicenter study, patients underwent elective or urgent cardiothoracic surgery between 01-01-2015 and 31-12-2019, and completed pre- and one year post-operative Short Form Health Survey 36/12 quality of life questionnaires. A binary logistic regression model, in which the inverse of the propensity score for infection risk was included as a weight variable, was used. Second, this analysis was stratified for diabetes mellitus status

SUBMITTER: Rijnhart-de Jong HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10858541 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature