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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:1655
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR JOSEPH B. ZWISCHENBERGER (Galveston, TX): The Mayo Clinic group is to be congratulated for their honest reporting on such a difficult group of patients and on their attempt to define and quantify functional outcome. However, I am intrigued by your ability to retrospectively review charts months to decades old and assign an outcome value for statistical evaluation. In one of your concluding slides, how did you compare functional outcome to the different parameters that you studied?

DR YOUNG: We looked at medications, dilatations, and symptoms. We do have another study that we are doing now that is more prospective that will be a better tool to look at quality of life.

DR ZWISCHENBERGER: So you did have patient contact on each questionnaire?

DR YOUNG: Yes.

DR ZWISCHENBERGER: What was . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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