Quality of life in elderly patients with venous thromboembolism assessed using patient-reported outcome measures

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BACKGROUND: We aimed to evaluate the quality of life (QoL), using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), in elderly patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and to explore whether VTE complications (recurrence, bleeding, or postthrombotic syndrome) had an impact on later QoL.

METHODS: We used data from the SWIss venous Thromboembolism COhort of older patients(SWITCO65+), a prospective multicenter cohort of patients aged ≥65 years with acute, symptomatic VTE. Primary outcome was changes in QoL up to 24 months, assessed using generic (36-Item Short-Form Health Survey), with physical (PCS) and mental component score (MCS), and disease-specific (Venous Insufficiency Epidemiological and Economic Study [VEINES]-QoL, [VEINES-Sym], and Pulmonary Embolism QoL) PROMs. PROM scores ranged from 0 to 100 points, higher scores indicating a better QoL. Longitudinal latent class analysis was used to group patients with similar PCS trajectories. Repeated-measures linear regression analyses were used to assess effects of VTE complications on changes in QoL scores.

RESULTS: In 923 patients (median age, 75; male, 54%), 140 (15%) patients died, 97 (11%) experienced recurrent VTE, and 106 (12%) major bleeding during follow-up. Compared with patients with higher PCS trajectories, patients with lower PCS trajectories were more likely to be older, female, sicker, and less physically active. On average, generic and disease-specific QoL scores improved over time (+11% in PCS, +3% in MCS, +6% in VEINES QoL, and +16% in Pulmonary Embolism QoL at 3 months). VTE complications were always associated with significantly lower QoL scores (for VTE recurrence: PCS adjusted difference -2.57, 95% CI, -4.47 to -0.67).

CONCLUSION: Although QoL following VTE tended to improve over time, patients with VTE-related complications had lower QoL than patients without complications.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH - 21(2023), 11 vom: 12. Nov., Seite 3193-3202

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Deschamps, Justine [VerfasserIn]
Choffat, Damien [VerfasserIn]
Limacher, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Righini, Marc [VerfasserIn]
Beer, Juerg Hans [VerfasserIn]
Baumgartner, Christine [VerfasserIn]
Hugli, Olivier [VerfasserIn]
Aujesky, Drahomir [VerfasserIn]
Méan, Marie [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Elderly patients
Journal Article
Major bleeding
Multicenter Study
Patient-reported outcome measures
Quality of life
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Venous thromboembolism

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Date Completed 23.10.2023

Date Revised 25.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jtha.2023.07.022

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360792111