None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The West Australian Heart Valves Study (WAVES) aims to improve patient outcomes in valvular heart disease. The study aims to achieve this via two separate components: 1) A registry that includes data linkage of mortality and hospital morbidity records of all patients who have had a heart valve replacement and/or repair in one of the 3 tertiary public hospitals in Western Australia since 2010 and 2) An observational cohort study of all living patients in the registry to determine health outcomes, medication use and patient reported outcomes such as quality of life, functional capacity and life disability.
Interventions
The WAVES study will involve the development of a registry of patients who have had a heart valve replacement or repair surgery at one of the tertiary hospitals in Perth, Western Australia since 2010.
The data will be linked with administrative data sets including death registrations and hospital morbidity.
The registry will be updated annually.
Consent will also be sought from all living registry participants to participate in a prospective observational study.
Long term outcomes and medi
The WAVES study will involve the development of a registry of patients who have had a heart valve replacement or repair surgery at one of the tertiary hospitals in Perth, Western Australia since 2010. The data will be linked with administrative data sets including death registrations and hospital morbidity. The registry will be updated annually. Consent will also be sought from all living registry participants to participate in a prospective observational study. Long term outcomes and medication use will be ascertained using brief questionnaires that will be posted out to participants. Each will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Questionnaires to ascertain patient reported outcomes will also be mailed out to participants. These will include the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire for quality of life, DASI questionnaire for functional capacity and the WHODAS questionnaire for assessment of life disability. Each of these questionnaires will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. These will be performed at enrolment and repeated at 2 years, and 4 years post-enrolment. No additional testing/imaging will be required of living registry participants.
Sponsors
Professor Graham Hillis
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Heart valve repair or replacement surgery at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital or Royal Perth Hospital since 2010.
Exclusion criteria
Nil
Outcome results
None listed