Publications by authors named "C J Caspersen"
Introduction: Up to 50 % of patients surviving a pulmonary embolism (PE) report persisting shortness of breath, reduced physical capacity and psychological distress. As the PE population is heterogeneous compared to other cardiovascular patient groups, outcome measures for assessing physical capacity traditionally used in cardiac populations may not be reliable for the PE population as a whole. This scoping review aims to 1) map performance-based outcome measures (PBOMs) used for assessing physical capacity in PE research, and 2) to report the psychometric properties of the identified PBOMs in a PE population.
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- The study investigates the long-term outcomes of patients recovering from pulmonary embolism (PE) and the role of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in capturing what's important for these patients.
- It involves a systematic review of 68 quantitative and 13 qualitative studies, identifying 34 different PROMs and 408 patient concerns, sorted into categories related to health and wellbeing.
- While the PROMs included in the ICHOM core set addressed many patient concerns, they overlooked critical issues like anxiety around symptoms and uncertainty, indicating a gap in comprehensive patient care.
Introduction: The prevalence of severe obesity is increasing and highly associated with co-morbidities such as Type 2 diabetes (T2D). Furthermore, quality of life (QoL) is negatively affected among patients with severe obesity and T2D. Studies have found that gastric bypass surgery may lead to remission of T2D and improved QoL.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSymptomatic hip dysplasia is primarily treated surgically with periacetabular osteotomy (PAO). It is unclear whether changes in quality of life (QoL) and changes in hip function follow the same pattern of improvement as pain following PAO. The aim of the study is to investigate whether changes in pain were associated with changes in QoL and hip function 2 years after PAO.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Sex-specific prediabetes estimates are not available for older-adult Americans.
Purpose: To estimate prediabetes prevalence, using nationally representative data, in civilian, non-institutionalized, older U.S.