The Utility of a Specific Measure for Heart Transplant Patients: Reliability and Validity of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire | Zendy

Teresa Ortega | Zendy; Beatriz DíazMolina | Zendy; Ma Angeles Montoliu | Zendy; Francisco Ortega | Zendy; C Valdés | Zendy; Pablo Rebollo | Zendy; María Almenar | Zendy; Marta Íscar Urrutia | Zendy

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The Utility of a Specific Measure for Heart Transplant Patients: Reliability and Validity of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire

Author(s) -

Teresa Ortega,

Beatriz DíazMolina,

Ma Angeles Montoliu,

Francisco Ortega,

C Valdés,

Pablo Rebollo,

María Almenar,

Marta Íscar Urrutia

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

transplantation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45

H-Index - 204

eISSN - 1534-6080

pISSN - 0041-1337

DOI - 10.1097/tp.0b013e318183eda4

Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , physical therapy , heart transplantation , concurrent validity , clinical trial , transplantation , reliability (semiconductor) , psychometrics , internal consistency , clinical psychology , nursing , physics , power (physics) , quantum mechanics

Health-Related Quality of Life of patients with heart transplantation is an important variable; however, it has received little attention so far, and only two Spanish validated measurement instruments are available. The aim of our study was to validate the Spanish version of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) in heart transplant patients.

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