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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 14.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2010 Dec 25;20(2):205–214. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9731-4

Table 4.

Comparison of patient clinical variables between Development and Composite samples

Patient clinical variables Child
Adolescent
Development Composite P-value Development Composite P-value
Type of heart disease (% congenital) 63.8 86.8 <0.001 54.5 74.0 <0.001
Type of congenital heart disease (% two-ventricle) 76.9 79.3 0.511 83.0 84.7 0.623
Number of prior catheterization/interventions [median (range)] 1 (0–16) 1 (0–30) 0.865 1 (0–20) 1 (0–50) <0.001
Number of prior cardiac surgeries [median (range)] 1 (0–6) 1 (0–10) <0.001 0 (0–8) 1 (0–20) <0.001
Number of doctor visits in past year [median (range)] 4 (0–40) 3 (0–30) 0.031 3 (0–50) 3 (0–100) 0.446
Time since last hospitalization—years [median (range)] 4 (0–12) 5 (0–12) 0.919 4 (0–18) 4 (0–18) 0.173

A P-value<0.008 was determined to be statistically significant