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Quality of life can both influence and be an outcome of general health perceptions after heart surgery

Lars Mathisen1,2 email, Marit H Andersen1,3 email, Marijke Veenstra4 email, Astrid K Wahl5 email, Berit R Hanestad5 email and Erik Fosse1 email

The Interventional Centre, Faculty Division Rikshospitalet, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, N-0027 Oslo, Norway

Dept of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, Sognsvannsveien 20, N-0027 Oslo, Norway

Dept of Surgery, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, Sognsvannsveien 20, N-0027 Oslo, Norway

Dept. of Biostatistics, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, Sognsvannsveien 20, N-0027 Oslo, Norway

The Institute of Public Health/Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway

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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007, 5:27doi:10.1186/1477-7525-5-27

Published: 24 May 2007

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Additional file 1:

Cross-lagged model with Global Quality of Life (gQOL) displaying unstandardized and standardized estimates, together with correlation coefficients between error variances.

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Simultaneous reciprocal effects model with Global Quality of Life (gQOL) displaying unstandardized and standardized estimates.

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Cross-lagged model with Quality of Life Scale – Norwegian version (QOLS-N) displaying unstandardized and standardized estimates, together with correlation coefficients between error variances.

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Simultaneous reciprocal effects model with Quality of Life Scale – Norwegian version (QOLS-N) displaying unstandardized and standardized estimates.

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