Recovery of health-related quality of life after burn injuries: An individual participant data meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A prominent outcome measure within burn care is health related quality of life (HRQL). Until now, no model for long-term recovery of HRQL exists for adult burn patients which requires large samples with repeated measurements. Re-use and the combination of existing data is a way to achieve larger data samples that enable the estimation of long-term recovery models. The aim of this secondary data analysis was to assess the recovery of HRQL after a burn injury over time.

Methods and findings

Data from ten European studies on generic HRQL assessed in adult burn patients (either with the EQ-5D or SF-36) from five different countries were merged into one dataset. SF-36 outcomes were transformed into EQ-5D outcomes. A 24-month recovery of HRQL (EQ-5D utility) was modeled

SUBMITTER: Spronk I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6953837 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature