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1: Clin Pract Epidemol Ment Health. 2005 Oct 4;1:19.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Heart failure and health related quality of life.

Coelho R, Ramos S, Prata J, Bettencourt P, Ferreira A, Cerqueira-Gomes M.

Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de S. João, Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal. rmnscoelho@mail.telepac.pt

Quality of life is a major goal in the context of preventive and therapeutic cardiology. It is important, both as an outcome measure in clinical trials of congestive heart failure (CHF) and as a consideration in individual physicians' therapeutic decisions. In this article, quality of life concepts are reviewed, methods of measurement are explored and clinically significant changes on prognosis are discussed. There is a need for more research which is based on carefully selected measures of quality of life chosen as being of particular importance to patients and to the hypotheses being tested.

PMID: 16202163 [PubMed]

PMCID: PMC1274338