Quality of life in patients with heart failure: ask the patients

S Heo, TA Lennie, C Okoli, DK Moser - Heart & lung, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) is a progressive clinical condition that results in substantial
impairment of quality of life (QOL). Helping patients maintain optimal QOL is essential. …

Quality of life in patients with heart failure: do gender differences exist?

MS Riedinger, KA Dracup, ML Brecht, G Padilla… - Heart & Lung, 2001 - Elsevier
… to evaluate gender differences in quality of life (QOL) in a large sample of age-matched and
ejection fraction (EF)-matched patients with heart failure. Design: Matched comparisons of …

Quality of life and survival in patients with heart failure

T Hoekstra, T Jaarsma… - … of heart failure, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Heart failure (HF) has a negative impact on the length and quality of life (QoL) of patients.1,2 …
questionnaires [Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire (MLwHFQ), Kansas City …

Impact of symptom prevalence and symptom burden on quality of life in patients with heart failure

CH Zambroski, DK Moser, G Bhat… - European journal of …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
… Background: Heart failure is an escalating health problem around the … , heart failure patients
experience multiple physical and psychological symptoms that can impact the quality of life. …

Age, functional capacity, and health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure

FA Masoudi, JS Rumsfeld, EP Havranek… - … of cardiac failure, 2004 - Elsevier
… To provide insights into the HRQL of elderly patients with heart failure, we independently
assessed the impact of function and symptoms on patients' perceptions of their HRQL and …

Assessing health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure: a systematic, standardized comparison of available measures

O Garin, M Herdman, G Vilagut, M Ferrer, A Ribera… - Heart failure …, 2014 - Springer
… quality of life (HRQL) instruments for use in patients with heart failure (HF). … Heart Failure
Assessment Tool, the Cardiac Health Profile congestive heart failure, the Chronic Heart Failure

Symptoms, depression, and quality of life in patients with heart failure

DB Bekelman, EP Havranek, DM Becker… - … of cardiac failure, 2007 - Elsevier
… To our knowledge, studies of patients with heart failure have not examined … , depression,
and quality of life. Depression, which is common in patients with heart failure, is thought to …

Factors and interventions influencing health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure: a review of the literature

P Johansson, U Dahlström… - European Journal of …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
… The following keywords were used separately and in combination with each other: congestive
heart failure, heart failure, quality of life and health-related quality of life. The following …

… interventions on mortality, hospital readmissions, chronic heart failure hospitalization rate and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure: a systematic review

JB Ditewig, H Blok, J Havers… - Patient education and …, 2010 - Elsevier
… self-management interventions in patients with chronic heart failure indicate a positive effect,
patients and due to chronic heart failure, decrease in mortality and increasing quality of life. …

Health related quality of life in patients with congestive heart failure: comparison with other chronic diseases and relation to functional variables

J Juenger, D Schellberg, S Kraemer, A Haunstetter… - Heart, 2002 - heart.bmj.com
… and quality of life in patients with mild to moderate congestive heart failure (predominantly
in … study included a broader spectrum of patients with congestive heart failure, with a large …