Why the study?
The study was conducted to evaluate symptom prevalence in patients with heart failure and investigate how symptoms relate to functional capacity and performance.
Hospitalized heart failure patients experience a high symptom burden that changes during admission, with poorer functional capacity correlating with greater symptom overload.
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Symptom assessment warranted during HF admissions; leaves open whether functionality interventions reduce overload in prospective studies.
Kurogi et al. (2020) studied this question.
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