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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2013 Nov;139(11):1099–1108. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2013.2747

Table 6.

Perioperative HNCI HRQOL scores by QOL domain.

Time HNCI HRQOL Domain
Speech function Speech attitude Eating function Eating attitude Aesthetic attitude Social function Social attitude Overall function Overall attitude Overall QOL
Baseline 89.5 (16.6) 84.0 (18.4) 86.3 (17.5) 85.5 (19.2) 90.1 (20.4) 85.1 (22.7) 86.9 (13.7) 87.0 (16.1) 86.9 (13.7) 76.3 (21.7)
3 wks 81.7 (20.5) 80.3 (21.5) 64.4 (21.7) 75.5 (20.1) 81.2 (25.5) 60.4 (21.5) 80.2 (18.9) 69.8 (18.3) 79.4 (16.2) 71.1 (20.5)
3 mos 72.0 (26.6) 72.9 (26.0) 58.1 (23.9) 50.3 (24.1) 83.9 (22.5) 61.2 (29.8) 76.0 (26.6) 65.9 (19.3) 70.6 (18.8) 61.2 (27.0)
6 mos 78.4 (20.6) 79.0 (20.9) 57.8 (24.8) 49.8 (23.3) 83.1 (22.6) 72.0 (27.8) 80.2 (20.3) 67.5 (20.3) 73.5 (18.0) 66.0 (25.8)
12 mos 80.3 (20.5) 81.4 (21.8) 58.5 (27.5) 57.9 (30.1) 84.2 (24.2) 78.7 (27.7) 84.2 (21.4) 70.5 (21.7) 78.0 (19.4) 76.8 (20.5)

12 mos – baseline −9.2 −2.6 −27.8 −27.6 −7.0 −6.4 −2.7 −19.5 −8.9 +0.5
p-value 0.002a 0.77 <0.001 a <0.001 a 0.07 0.28 0.37 <0.001 a 0.01 a 0.98

Abbreviations: HNCI, Head and Neck Cancer Inventory; HRQOL, Health Related Quality of Life; QOL, Quality of Life; wks, weeks; mos, months.

Data are given as: mean (standard deviation). p-Values demonstrate a comparison between baseline and 12-months post-TORS values.

a

Denotes statistical significance