Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Assessing the Diversity and Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life Measures in Patients with Acute Heart Failure
Authors' conclusion
This study illuminates the variance in HR-QoL measurement tools for Taiwanese HFrEF patients.
Study context
- Population
- Patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in a Taiwanese tertiary centre's HF Post-Acute-Care (Heart Failure Post-Acute-Care (HF-PAC)) programme
- Participants
- 134 patients
- Exposure
- EQ-5D vs EQ-5D utility vs visual analogue scale (VAS) vs Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ)
- Outcome
- Variation in health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) measurement tools and their determinants
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
HR-QoL scores
EQ-5D
6.1
mean · SD 1.6
MLHFQ
21.8
mean · SD 21.3
EQ-5D utility
81.7
mean · SD 27.0
VAS
59.5
mean · SD 14.6
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Assessing the Diversity and Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life Measures in Patients with Acute Heart Failure. ESC Heart Fail. Published 20 March 2024. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it