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Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Upper GI Malignancies

Upper gastrointestinal (GI) conditions vastly affect each individual’s physical, social, and emotional status. The decision-making process by the medical personnel about these patients is currently based on a patient’s life quality evaluation scale, HRQL scales. By utilizing HRQL scales, a better un...

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Autores principales: Christodoulidis, Grigorios, Kouliou, Marina-Nektaria, Koumarelas, Konstantinos-Eleftherios, Giakoustidis, Dimitris, Athanasiou, Thanos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10532582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37763313
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life13091910
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Sumario:Upper gastrointestinal (GI) conditions vastly affect each individual’s physical, social, and emotional status. The decision-making process by the medical personnel about these patients is currently based on a patient’s life quality evaluation scale, HRQL scales. By utilizing HRQL scales, a better understanding of the various surgical and non-surgical treatment options, as well as their long-term consequences, can be achieved. In our study, an organ-based approach is used in an attempt to examine and characterized the effect of upper GI surgery on HRQL. Therefore, HRQL scales’ function as a prognostic tool is useful, and the need for future research, the creation of valid training programs, and modern guidelines is highlighted.