Impact of biliary complications on quality of life in live-donor liver transplant recipients

Table 3 Comparison of the quality-of-life scores for live-donor liver transplant recipients with biliary complications and their corresponding norm-based scores

HRQoL score	LDLT-R with BC	NBS score	P value1
Physical functioning	50 (50-75)	41.3 (41.3-49.2)	0.003
Role physical	50 (31.3-75)	40.5 (34.2-49)	0.001
Bodily pain	50 (50-75)	39.7 (39.7-48.7)	0.003
General health	60 (60-85)	47.8 (47.8-57.7)	0.004
Vitality	50 (25-50)	49.1 (39.2-49.1)	1.000
Social functioning	50 (50-50)	39.1 (39.1-39.1)	0.005
Role emotion	50 (37.5-75)	35.5 (30.3-45.9)	< 0.001
Mental health	50 (50-62.5)	41.3 (41.3-47)	0.001

¹Wilcoxon signed ranks test.

Data are shown as median and interquartile range. BC: Biliary complications; HRQoL: Health related quality of life; LDLT-R: Live donor liver transplant recipients; NBS: Norm based score.