Table 2.

Quality of life and clinical outcomes at 12 months follow-up (N = 167).

	Poor–poor (n = 34)	Good–poor (n = 46)	Poor–good (n = 17)	Good–good (n = 70)	p-value
Quality of life, n = 125	64.9±16.3	70.0±12.9	78.5±13.8	72.0±11.9	0.022
Total number of hospitalisations, n (%)
Hospitalisations for any reason, once	6 (17%)	11 (24%)*	1 (5.9%)	7 (10%)	0.054
⩾2	2 (5.9%)	5 (11%)	1 (5.9%)	1 (1.4%)
Hospitalisations for CV reason, once	4 (12%)	11 (24%)*	1 (5.9%)	2 (2.9%)	0.003
⩾2	1 (2.9%)	1 (2.1%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
HF hospitalisations for HF, once	2 (5.9%)	3 (6.5%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0.058
⩾2	1 (2.9%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Hospitalisations for non-CV, once	4 (12%)	2 (4.4%)	0 (%)	6 (8.6%)	0.453
⩾2	1 (2.9%)	3 (6.5%)	1 (5.9%)	1 (1.4%)
Emergency room visits, n (%)
Visits for any reasons	6 (18%)	8 (17%)	3 (18%)	6 (8.6%)	0.377
Visits for CV reasons	4 (12%)	3 (6.5%)	1 (5.9%)	2 (2.9%)	0.274
Visits for HF	1 (2.9%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0.305
Visits for non-CV	3 (8.8%)	5 (11%)	2 (12%)	4 (5.7%)	0.700
Total number of emergency room visits, n (%)
Visits for any reasons, once	4 (12%)	4 (8.7%)	2 (12%)	6 (8.6%)	0.200
⩾2	2 (5.9%)	4 (8.7%)	1 (5.9%)	0 (0%)
Visits for CV reasons, once	4 (12%)	3 (6.5%)	1 (5.9%)	2 (2.9%)	0.274
Visits for HF, once	1 (2.9%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0.305
Visits for non-CV, once	1 (2.9%)	1 (2.2%)	1 (5.9%)	4 (5.7%)	0.151
⩾2	2 (5.9%)	4 (8.7%)	1 (5.9%)	0 (0%)

Note: Hospitalisation included unplanned hospitalisation and a planned hospitalisation for an intensive treatment such as CRT/ICD implantation and PCI that might influence patients’ mortality and morbidity.

^*Post-hoc test, p < 0.017 by comparison of hospitalisations with a group of good–good self-care. When a p-value was less than 0.017, the p-value achieved the statistically significant after Bonferroni correction. The statistical threshold was adjusted to 0.05/3 = 0.017.

CV, cardiovascular; HF, heart failure; CRT, cardiac resynchronisation therapy; ICD, implantable cardioverter defibrillator.