Development and evaluation of the Kansas City cardiomyopathy questionnaire: A new health status measure for heart failure

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1245-1255

  Green, C Patrick ^a   Porter, Charles B ^a,b   Bresnahan, Dennis R ^a,b   Spertus, John A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LUKE S MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF EFFICACY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034039691     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)00531-3     Document Type: Article

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