Patient health status includes 3 components: symptom burden, functional status, and health-
related quality of life (HRQL; Figure). 7 Symptom burden includes the types and frequency of …

BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) usually experience poor quality of
life (QoL). Psychosocial interventions tend to affect QoL in CHF. The aim of this study was to …

Background—Despite the growing epidemic of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
(HFpEF), no valid measure of patients' health status (symptoms, function, and quality of life) …

Background—Improving functional status and quality of life are important goals of treatment
for patients with severe aortic stenosis. The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire …

Background Functional electrical stimulation (FES) improves exercise capacity, quality of
life, emotional stress, and endothelial function in chronic heart failure with impaired systolic …

Abstract Purpose The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) is the
most widely used health-related quality of life measure in both clinical and research settings …

As medical therapies continue to expand and the delivery of health care becomes
increasingly complex, there is a growing need to inform patients, clinicians, and policy …

Home telemonitoring can augment home health care services during a patient's transition
from hospital to home. Home health care agencies commonly use telemonitors for patients …

Compared with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), long-term outcomes are known
to be worse in patients with unstable angina/non-STEMI (UA/NSTEMI), which might be …

METHODS: Subjects (n= 26; 7 women) completed a symptom-limited graded exercise test
within an average of 82 days (range, 33-167 days) of LVAD implant. In addition, subjects …