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This call to action emphasizes the need to increase the prominence of patient-reported outcomes, including health-related quality of life, in cardiovascular research and clinical practice.
Universal healthcare goals include helping patients to live longer and better, that is, to optimize both survival and health. Both, the European Society of Cardiology ESC1 and the American Heart Association2) have recognized that they have an unique opportunity to advance initiatives aimed at increasing the prominence of patient-reported outcomes in cardiovascular research and translating findings into clinical practice. Patient health status includes three components: symptom burden, functional status, and health-related quality of life (HRQL). Symptom burden includes the types and frequency of symptoms a patient may have as a manifestation of disease or from medical treatment (e.g. symptoms from side-effects of medications). Functional status includes physical, mental/emotional, and social function. Health-related quality of life is the patient’s perception of discrepancy between actual and desired functional status and overall impact of disease on well-being for a given patient3 and is typically measured using one or both...
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