Based on a low quality of evidence , home-based supervised exercise may lead to less improvement in maximum and pain-free walking distance , and in more improvement in daily life walking capacity , compared with hospital-based supervised exercise .
Home-based supervised exercise may improve maximum and pain-free walking distance compared with " go home and walk advice " and result in little or no difference in health-related quality of life and functional walking capacity compared with hospital-based supervised exercise or " go home and walk advice " .
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of home-based supervised exercise vs hospital-based supervised exercise , and the effects of home-based supervised exercise vs unsupervised " go home and walk advice " on daily life and corridor-walking capacity , health-related quality of life and patient-reported functional walking capacity in patients with intermittent claudication .
Quality of life in patients with intermittent claudication using the World Health Organisation (WHO) questionnaire.
OBJECTIVE to assess quality of life ( QOL ) in patients with intermittent claudication . DESIGN a prospect i ve , open study . MATERIAL AND METHOD one hundred and fifty-one consecutive claudicants ( 100 men , 51 women ) , and 161 healthy controls ( 70 men and 91 women ) completed an adapted version of the World  Health Organisation  Quality of Life Assessment Instrument-100  . RESULTS patients scored significantly worse on the domains Physical health and Level of independence , as well as on the facets Pain and discomfort , Energy and fatigue , Mobility , Activities of daily living , Dependence on medication and treatments , Working capacity , Negative feelings , Recreation and leisure and Overall QOL and general health . Increasing disease to incapacitating claudication affected only the facet Mobility and the domain Level of independence . CONCLUSION QOL in patients with intermittent claudication is reduced in many aspects . Where co-morbidity seems to affect QOL strongly , the effect of walking distance on QOL might be small . These findings may justify a reserved attitude towards invasive , even minimally invasive treatment of these patients
Based on a low quality of evidence , home-based supervised exercise may lead to less improvement in maximum and pain-free walking distance , and in more improvement in daily life walking capacity , compared with hospital-based supervised exercise .
Home-based supervised exercise may improve maximum and pain-free walking distance compared with " go home and walk advice " and result in little or no difference in health-related quality of life and functional walking capacity compared with hospital-based supervised exercise or " go home and walk advice " .
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of home-based supervised exercise vs hospital-based supervised exercise , and the effects of home-based supervised exercise vs unsupervised " go home and walk advice " on daily life and corridor-walking capacity , health-related quality of life and patient-reported functional walking capacity in patients with intermittent claudication .