HRQoL Among Patients Amputated Due to Peripheral Arterial Disease

Jonas Malmstedt

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; Amputation; Peripheral Arterial Disease; Prosthesis User

Treatments: Procedure: Amputation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03570788

2014/801-31/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective cohort study over the prosthetic use among patients amputated after vascular disease and the impact of their HRQoL.

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients amputated at femoral, knee or tibial level due to peripheral arterial disease

Exclusion criteria

• Patients not able to provide informed consent
• Patients not able to verbally express their experience of the amputation.
• Patients that not speak Swedish