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Quality‐of‐life measurement in chronic heart failure: do we take account of the patient perspective?
Author(s) -
Dunderdale Karen,
Thompson David R.,
Miles Jeremy N.V.,
Beer Stephen F.,
Furze Gill
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
european journal of heart failure
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.149
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1879-0844
pISSN - 1388-9842
DOI - 10.1016/j.ejheart.2004.06.006
Subject(s) - medicine , perspective (graphical) , life expectancy , quality of life (healthcare) , heart failure , intensive care medicine , chronic disease , heart disease , disease , health care , health related quality of life , nursing , pathology , cardiology , environmental health , economics , economic growth , population , artificial intelligence , computer science
The modern management of chronic heart failure has led to improved life expectancy, functioning and health‐related quality of life (HRQL). HRQL measures the effects of an illness or a treatment from the patient's perspective. It is now recognised that the patient's perspective is as legitimate and valid as the clinician's in monitoring health care outcomes. Although there are a number of quality‐of‐life measures, which can be separated into two types—generic and disease specific—many have been developed, with little or no account being taken of the patient's perspective. Because most of the widely used measures are not patient centred, they may lack sensitivity and specificity in determining those aspects of HRQL important to individual patients. This paper reviews the use of quality‐of‐life assessment tools in the evaluation of patients with heart failure.