Device-specific quality of life: results from the ATLAS trial—avoid transvenous leads in appropriate subjects
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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
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Patient-reported quality of life outcomes from a defibrillator trial; a clinical result, not a study of trial practice.
This is a clinical trial outcomes analysis, and methodological terms are incidental.
Clinical trial report of ICD device quality of life; object is medical device outcomes, not research methods.
Abstract
AIMS: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) provide important insights into patients' acceptance of their medical devices. Avoid Transvenous Leads in Appropriate Subjects (ATLAS), a randomized, multi-centre, open-label clinical trial, recently reported fewer perioperative complications in subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD) compared with transvenous ICD (TV-ICD) patients. This study reports PROs, including device-specific and generic quality of life (QOL), from the ATLAS trial. METHODS AND RESULTS: Device-specific QOL was the primary PRO using the Florida Patient Acceptance Survey (FPAS) at 1 and 6 months' post-implantation. Secondary outcomes included generic QOL using the Medical Outcomes Survey (SF-36) pre-implant and 6 months' post-implantation. The FPAS and SF-36 were analysed using analysis of covariance. Pain measured using a Numeric Rating Scale, at 1 and 6 months, anaesthetic, body mass index, and within/between differences were analysed using descriptive statistics and mixed-effects linear models. Of the 503 patients randomized in ATLAS, 404 had complete FPAS data to be included in this analysis. Participant characteristics were balanced. There were no significant differences between S-ICD and TV-ICD for the FPAS or SF-36, across time points. Mean total FPAS scores increased from 73.73 (16.09) to 77.05 (16.13) and 74.43 (15.35) to 78.25 (15.88) for S-ICD and TV-ICD, respectively (P < 0.001). Patient-reported outcomes suggested that both devices were associated with good QOL. CONCLUSION: Device-specific and generic QOL were similar between S-ICD and TV-ICD groups up to 6 months' post-implantation, indicating that regardless of device type, both groups reported good device-specific QOL in ATLAS patients. Subcutaneous ICD patients reported higher pain scores at implant, but pain decreased by 6 months. The findings offer evidence that can be included during shared decision-making. The inclusion of patient partners in ATLAS provided an opportunity to measure PROs that were deemed important to patients. REGISTRATION: ClinialTrials.gov: NCT02881255.
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The record
- Venue
- European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
- Topic
- Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
- Field
- Medicine
- Canadian institutions
- University of British ColumbiaMontreal Heart InstituteMcMaster UniversityPopulation Health Research Institute
- Funders
- Boston Scientific Corporation
- Keywords
- MedicineAtlas (anatomy)Quality (philosophy)Intensive care medicineAnatomy
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes