The left ventricular dysfunction questionnaire: Italian translation and validation

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Cardiac Series

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 100-104

  Miani, Daniela ^d   Gregori, Dario ^c   Ghidina, Marco ^a   Rozbowsky, Patrizia ^a   Pilotto, Laura ^b   Albanese, Maria Cecilia ^d   Fresco, Claudio ^d   Fioretti, Paolo Maria ^d  

^a IRCAB Foundation   (Italy)

^b Health Promotion/Health Education   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Instrument; Left venticular dysfunction questionnaire; Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ITALY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; OUTPATIENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 32644481025     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2005.594     Document Type: Article

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