THE STUDY OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PATIENTS IS AN IMPORTANT TOOL TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF COMPLICATED PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE

Abstract

Objective: Complicated peptic ulcer disease provides a serious medico-social problem. The article presents literature data dedicated to the study of the quality of life, as a result of conservative and surgical treatment of patients with various complications of the ulcerative disease. Given a brief characteristic of the concept of quality of life, modern approaches to the definition of this indicator presented a list of questionnaires used in gastroenterology. The method of quality of life research allows to characterize the current functional state the patient to assess the effectiveness of surgical and medical treatment and may serve as additional criteria in choosing a method of surgical treatment of complicated forms of ulcer disease. Assessment of the dynamics of quality of life indicators allows improving the system of rehabilitation assistance. Thus, the quality of life should be considered as an important independent measure of the disease and the efficacy of surgical treatment of complicated ulcer disease

Keywords

• peptic ulcer disease
• complications
• surgical treatment
• quality of life.