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October 16, 2013Circulation Heart Failure190 citations

Comparable Performance of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction

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SJSusan JosephENEric NovakSASuzanne V. Arnold

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Is the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire a valid, reliable, and prognostic measure of health status in patients with HFpEF compared to HFrEF?

P
Population
Patients with heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction (HFpEF and HFrEF)
I
Intervention
Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ)
C
Comparator
Performance compared between HFpEF and HFrEF
O
Outcome
Validity, reliability, and prognostic ability of the KCCQpatient reported

The KCCQ is a valid, reliable, and prognostically useful tool for assessing health status in patients with HFpEF, performing comparably to its established use in HFrEF.

Limitations

  • Responsiveness to clinical change not yet established
  • Findings require replication and extension in future studies

Abstract

Among patients with HFpEF, the KCCQ seems to be a valid and reliable measure of health status and offers excellent prognostic ability. Future studies should extend and replicate our findings, including the establishment of its responsiveness to clinical change.

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Joseph et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7599ab4cef8fedc48f6e6https://doi.org/10.1161/circheartfailure.113.000359
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