Minnesota Living With Heart Failure

Patients self assessment of their congestive heart failure.

Minnesota living with heart failure.

Quirós health and quality of life outcomes. The two questionnaires were administered to 589 patients with chronic heart failure who were registered with 97 primary care physicians. The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire lhfq is a commonly used measure of health related quality of life in persons with heart failure researchers have questioned whether lhfq is sensitive to subtle differences and sufficiently responsive to clinical interventions because the instrument has demonstrated variable performance in clinical trials. The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq is one of the most widely used health related quality of life questionnaires for patients with heart failure hf.

Am heart j 1992 124 1017 1025 pubmed abstract rector ts kubo sh cohn jn. The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq is one of the most widely used health related quality of life questionnaires for patients with heart failure hf. One of the most commonly used instruments to measure hrqol in this population is the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire lhfq. García pérez gemma navarro r.

Health related quality of life hrqol is an important outcome in patients with heart failure. However there are some concerns about its factor structure and alternatives have been proposed some including a third factor. It provides scores for two dimensions physical and emotional and a total score. The united states food drug administration fda has approved the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq as a medical device development tool mddt for use in controlled clinical trials designed to test superiority or non inferiority of medical devices in support of regulatory submissions.

The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq is a reliable and valid patient oriented measure of the adverse effects of heart failure on a patient s life. The united states food and drug administration fda has approved the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire as medical device development tool mddt for use in controlled clinical trials designed to test. It provides scores. Content reliability and validity of a new measure the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire.

To evaluate the applicability internal consistency and validity of the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq when used in primary care compared with the short form 36 sf 36 health survey.