Análisis factorial de la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud de pacientes que ingresan en una unidad de corta estancia médica

Prospective cohort study of 335 patients aged 15 to 99 years (196males) consecutively admitted to the SSMU. In all we recorded sociodemographic data, numberof previous hospital admissions, admission type, main diagnosis, lenght of stay, comorbidities,the Goldberg Depression and Anxiety Scale, the Karnofsky Perfomance Scale, the Barthel Indexand quality of life with the EuroQol-5D instrument. After studying the associations betweenvariables, we carried out a factor analysis of those that were significantly related to HRQL.