Table 3.

Adult Primary Continuous Flow LVAD Patients who completed the EQ-5D-3L by Patient Profile at: Pre-Implant, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months post implant

				Post-implant
	Pre-Implant			3 months			6 months			12 months
Patient Profile	n	QOL*	%	n	QOL*	%	n	QOL*	%	n	QOL*	%	p-value
Level 1	262	220	84.0%	235	113	48.1%	211	73	34.6%	141	49	34.8%	< 0.0001
Level 2	695	546	78.6%	649	323	49.8%	590	251	42.5%	425	172	40.5%	< 0.0001
Level 3	330	236	71.5%	322	149	46.3%	301	133	44.2%	228	96	42.1%	<0.0001
Level 4	175	127	72.6%	163	78	47.9%	155	67	43.2%	110	54	49.1%	<0.0001
Levels 5–7	97	61	62.9%	91	44	48.4%	83	45	54.2%	66	30	45.5%	0.1
Total	1559	1190	76.3%	1460	707	48.4%	1340	569	42.5%	970	401	41.3%
P value	< 0.0001			0.89			0.03			0.21

Note: The INTERMACS patient profile level is collected prior to implant. This table illustrates the breakdown of patient profile level for those patients who completed the EQ-5D questionnaire at the specified time points. The p-values in the last column reflect differences in rates of completion for each INTERMACS profile across time. The p-values in the last row reflect differences in rates of completion for each INTERMACS profile at a specified time period.

^*QOL = Patients who answered the EQ-5D-3L (Note: Those patients who did not complete the EQ-5D because they were ‘too sick’ were assigned the VAS=0 and the physical dimensions as extreme problems and were included in this table as EQ-5D form completions).