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. 2005 Oct 4:1:19.
doi: 10.1186/1745-0179-1-19.

Heart failure and health related quality of life

Rui Coelho  1 , Sónia Ramos, Joana Prata, Paulo Bettencourt, António Ferreira, Mário Cerqueira-Gomes
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Heart failure and health related quality of life

Rui Coelho et al. Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health. .

Abstract

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.

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