Marten J. Poley - Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Short-Term and Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life after ARM and CDH 59Table 4.3 Symptom Scores of ARM Patients and CDH Patients Compared with Reference ScoresARM patientsCDH patientsReference group Symptom score difference withreference group (95% CI † )Age class n Mean age Mean score(SD)n Mean age Mean score n Mean age ARMCDH(SD)1-4 y 40 2.75.9 (3.3) 20 2.97.3 (6.1) 18 3.03.5 (1.7 to 5.3) ** 1.6 (-2.6 to 5.8)5-10 y 67 7.24.2 (3.1) 23 8.07.5 (7.4) 22 7.32.9 (1.5 to 4.3) ** 2.4 (-1.4 to 6.2)11-15 y 52 12.9 3.8 (2.9) 16 13.5 5.9 (5.1) 11 12.93.2 (1.4 to 5.0) ** 2.1 (-1.4 to 5.6) 16 y 127 23.8 2.7 (2.5) 52 21.8 7.1 (5.4) 2 17.02.7 ‡4.3 ‡Total 286 15.0 3.7 (3.0) 111 14.3 7.0 (5.9) 53 7.42.2 (1.4 to 3.1) ** 2.1 (0.2 to 3.9) ****†‡A missing value analysis (using an expectation-maximization algorithm) was performed for 79 (16%) of all 503 calculated symptom scores.Significant at P < 0.05.Significant at P < 0.001.95% confidence interval for the difference between the group means.Difference not tested (because of small sample size).