Acceptability and Psychometric Properties of the Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire Among Patients Undergoing Heart Valve Surgery: Validation and Comparison With SF-36

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-277

  Supino, Phyllis G ^a,b   Borer, Jeffrey S ^a,b   Franciosa, Joseph A ^a,b   Preibisz, Jacek J ^a,b   Hochreiter, Clare ^a   Isom, O W ^a   Krieger, Karl H ^a   Girardi, Leonard N ^a   Bouraad, Dany ^a,b   Forur, Lindsey ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality of life; reliability; validity; valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 63049096673     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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