Quality of life study. The study with include all patients operated with total thyroidectomy between 2005-2015 in Uppsala-Örebro healthcare region, Sweden. The study population has been identified in a previous study and includes close to 1700 patients, of which about 200 developed permanent hypoparathyroidism after surgery. Quality of Life will be assessed using SF-36 Health Surgery and the outcome for patients with and without permanent hypoparathyroidism will be compared.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1,700
Uppsala University Hospital
Uppsala, Sweden
Quality of Life using SF-36 short form
The SF-36 yields eight scale scores and two summary scores, the physical component summary (PCS) and mental component summary (MCS). Scoring PCS and MCS involves three steps: 1) standardization of the scales (z-scores) 2) aggregation of score scales and 3) transformation of summary scores (t-scores). For each domain (PCS and MCS) the mean score is 50 with a standard deviation of 10. Higher scores indicates better quality of life (score range 0-100)
Time frame: 2021
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