TABLE 5.
Health-related QoL measured with Euro-QoL Five Dimensions instrument.
| Domain | Levelø | Admission total n = 49 |
Discharge total n = 41 |
Median difference | IQR | Wilcoxon Signed Rank test, test-statistic | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||||||
| EQ5D best imaginable health state scale measured by VAS | |||||||||
| EQ5D VAS median | - | - | 30 | 12.5, 40.0 | 5.289 | p < 0.001* | |||
| Median | 50 | 80 | - | - | - | - | |||
| IQR | 40.70 | 70.90 | - | - | - | - | |||
| EQ5D domains | |||||||||
| Mobility | 1† | 3 | 6.12 | 21 | 51.22 | −1 | −1, 0 | 4.491 | p < 0.001* |
| 2‡ | 42 | 85.71 | 20 | 48.80 | - | - | - | - | |
| 3¶ | 4 | 8.16 | 0 | 0.00 | - | - | - | - | |
| Median | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| IQR | 2-2 | 1–2 | - | - | - | - | |||
| Self-care | 1† | 6 | 12.24 | 32 | 78.05 | −1 | −1.0, 0 | 5.112 | p < 0.001* |
| 2‡ | 42 | 85.71 | 9 | 21.95 | - | - | - | - | |
| 3¶ | 1 | 2.04 | 0 | 0.00 | - | - | - | - | |
| Median | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| IQR | 2–2 | 1–1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| Usual activities | 1† | 3 | 6.12 | 24 | 58.54 | −1 | −1.5, -0.5 | 5.072 | p < 0.001* |
| 2‡ | 24 | 48.98 | 16 | 39.02 | - | - | - | - | |
| 3¶ | 22 | 44.90 | 1 | 2.44 | - | - | - | - | |
| Median | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| IQR | 2–3 | 1–2 | - | - | - | - | |||
| Pain/discomfort | 1† | 28 | 57.14 | 28 | 68.29 | 0 | 0, 0 | 2.121 | p = 0.034* |
| 2‡ | 20 | 40.82 | 12 | 29.27 | - | - | - | - | |
| 3¶ | 1 | 2,04 | 1 | 2.44 | - | - | - | - | |
| Median | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| IQR | 1–2 | 1–2 | - | - | - | - | |||
| Anxiety/depression | 1† | 32 | 65.31 | 32 | 78.05 | 0 | 0,0 | 0.881 | p = 0.378 |
| 2‡ | 14 | 28.57 | 8 | 19.51 | - | - | - | - | |
| 3¶ | 3 | 6.12 | 1 | 2.44 | - | - | - | - | |
| Median | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| IQR | 1–2 | 1–1 | - | - | - | - | |||
n, number; VAS, Visual Analog Scale; IQR, interquartile range; EQ5D, Euro-QoL Five Dimensions instrument.
*
, indicates statistical significance;
ø
, EQ5D level ranges from 1 to 3;
†
, being the more favourable category indicating no problems/no symptomsl;
‡
, some problems/ moderate symptoms;
¶
, unable to perform task/severe symptoms in the respective domain.