Table 5 |
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| Health-related quality of life over time and between different day surgical groups, based on a two-way repeated measure ANOVA | ||||
| Scales | Baseline (preoperative) mean (SD) | Day 30 (postoperative) mean (SD) | Sourcea | p-value |
| EQ index (n=454) | 0.727 (0.227) | 0.795 (0.220) | Time | <0.001 |
| Orthopaedic patients | 0.683 (0.246) | 0.744 (0.215) | Group | <0.001 |
| General surgery patients | 0.783 (0.187) | 0.868 (0.203) | Time x Group | 0.560 |
| Gynaecological patients | 0.796 (0.171) | 0.854 (0.221) | ||
| EQ-VAS (n=443) | 74.8 (17.2) | 82.5 (16.8) | Time | <0.001 |
| Orthopaedic patients | 72.6 (18.5) | 80.0 (16.5) | Group | <0.001 |
| General surgery patients | 77.4 (15.0) | 85.4 (17.3) | Time x Group | 0.706 |
| Gynaecological patients | 78.2 (14.7) | 87.5 (14.6) | ||
a Time – main effect within subjects over time, Group – main effect between orthopaedic, general surgery and gynaecological day surgery patients, Time x Group – interaction effect for time and group.
Berg et al. BMC Nursing 2012 11:24 doi:10.1186/1472-6955-11-24
