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- Title
The Relationship between Cardiac Functional Capacity and Patients' Symptom-specific Utilities for Angina.
- Authors
Nichol, Graham; Llewellyn-Thomas, Hilary A.; Thiel, Elaine C.; Naylor, C. David
- Abstract
Forty-one angina patients with coronary disease were interviewed to examine the correlation between prespecified and individualized weights for disease-specific measures of the effects of angina on the patients' well-being. Modifications of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) scale for angina and the Duke Activity Specific Index (DASI) were used to rate functional capacity with prespecified items. Disease-specific utilities based on descriptions of functional status were obtained directly, and again indirectly with different anchoring conditions to control for noncardiac comorbidity. Correlations between the functional-capacity measures and the derived utilities were not strong, ranging from -0 25 (p > 0.1) to -0.35 (p = 0.02). Correlation between the two prespecified measures was higher (r = -0.51 or -0.69, both p < 0.01, for DASI versus CCS graded from walking and stair-climbing, re spectively). The direct and indirect disease-specific utility scores were similar (r = 0.92, p < 0.01). The method described provides an approach to measuring disease-specific utilities by adapting existing scales for use in a standard gamble. It confirms that prespecified functional status scores inconsistently reflect patients' valuations of functional states. Further investigation should address whether the observed null effect of comorbidity on disease- specific utilities arose from inadequate coverage of the comorbidity issues in patient inter views or from lack of power given the small size of the feasibility study. Key words: cardiac patients' utilities; cardiac functional capacity; utilities for angina; comorbidity. (Med Decis Making 1996;16:78-85)
- Publication
Medical Decision Making, 1996, Vol 16, Issue 1, p78
- ISSN
0272-989X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0272989X9601600116