Predictors of the quality of life of older people with heart failure recruited from primary care

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 172-177

  Gott, Merryn ^a   Barnes, Sarah ^a   Parker, Chris ^a   Payne, Sheila ^a   Seamark, David ^b   Gariballa, Salah ^a   Small, Neil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; Elderly; Heart failure; Older people; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33644976907     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afj040     Document Type: Article

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