Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Resource Utilization in Patients with Primary Immunodeficiency Disease Prior to and Following 12 Months of Immunoglobulin G Treatment

• Published in: Journal of clinical immunology Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 450 - 461
• Main Authors: Routes, John, Costa-Carvalho, Beatriz Tavares, Grimbacher, Bodo, Paris, Kenneth, Ochs, Hans D., Filipovich, Alexandra, Hintermeyer, Mary, de Melo, Karina Mescouto, Workman, Sarita, Ito, Diane, Ye, Xiaolan, Bonnet, Patrick, Li-McLeod, Josephine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.07.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Health Resources; Humans; Immunoglobulins, Intravenous - therapeutic use; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes - drug therapy; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes - epidemiology; Immunology; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical Microbiology; Middle Aged; Original; Original Article; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Quality of Life; Surveys and Questionnaires; antibody deficiency; health-related quality of life; health resource utilization, short form health survey (SF-36); pediatric quality of life inventory (PedsQL); Primary immunodeficiency

Purpose Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has not been examined in patients with predominant antibody deficiency both pre- and post-immunoglobulin G (IgG) treatment initiation. HRQOL and health resource utilization (HRU) were assessed in newly diagnosed patients with primary immunodeficiency di...