Short-term patient-reported outcomes after different exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes.

BACKGROUND: An objective of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is improvement in patient-reported outcomes such as health-related quality of life as well as anxiety and depressive symptoms. There are no direct comparisons of the effectiveness of inpatient and outpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes on patient-reported outcomes. METHODS: In this non-randomized study we collected patient-reported outcomes data with the MacNew Heart Disease health-related quality of life questionnaire and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale at baseline, 1 month and again 3 months after admission to exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in a cohort of 216 consecutive patients enrolled either in a 4-week inpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (n=62) or a 3-month outpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (n=87) and in a usual care group (n=67) to document the natural course in patient-reported outcome variables without exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation. RESULTS: Although MacNew health-related quality of life scores improved more with inpatient than outpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation by month 1, the improvement was still significant in both groups at month 3 and also in the usual care group when compared to baseline. The health-related quality of life scores in the inpatient group, however, decreased between month 1 and 3 whereas they continued to improve in the outpatient group. The significant reduction in both anxiety and depressive symptoms in both exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation groups by month 1 was maintained at month 3 only with outpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation. No significant changes over the 3 months were observed in the usual care group. CONCLUSION: Significant improvements of 1-month patient-reported outcomes are achieved in patients attending inpatient as well as outpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation when compared with no exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation. In contrast to inpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation, however, outpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation leads to a further improvement of patient-reported outcomes. These results suggest that, if patients have to be admitted for inpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation, this programme should be followed by an outpatient exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation to further improve and stabilize these patient-reported outcome variables.     

Zur Entfernung nichtmagnetischer Fremdkörper aus dem Augeninnern

Schlußbetrachtung Die Behandlung nichtmagnetischer Fremdkörper im Augeninnern ist immer noch eine der schwersten augenärztlichen Aufgaben.Es ist wünschenswert, daß Patienten mit nichtmagnetischen Fremdkörpern im Augeninnern an Stellen überwiesen werden, wo alle aussichtsreichen technischen Möglichkeiten zur Lokalisation und Entfernung angewendet werden können.Bei planmäßig sorgfältigem Vorgehen können die Operationsaussichten der nichtmagnetischen Fremdkörper wahrscheinlich verbessert werden.Mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft.     

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