| Literature DB >> 21035879 |
Beatriz Cepeda-Valery1, Adrian P Cheong, Andrea Lee, Bryan P Yan.
Abstract
Health related quality of life (HRQoL) is used increasingly as a measure of the outcome of CHD. As an improvement in survival of CHD continues, assessment of HRQoL has become an important and useful outcome measure complementing the traditional "hard outcomes" such as mortality for evaluating benefits of medical interventions. Increasing number of clinical trials is applying HRQoL as an outcome measure of CHD therapy. Assessment of HRQoL in CHD should comprise a disease-specific measure in addition to a generic measure. This review aims to provide an overview of generic, disease-specific, and utility measures used in the assessment of HRQoL in CHD.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 21035879 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2010.09.048
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Cardiol ISSN: 0167-5273 Impact factor: 4.164