Does quality of life monitoring provide prognostic value for risk stratification in ambulatory heart failure patients?
Routine monitoring of quality of life in ambulatory heart failure patients provides valuable prognostic information for risk stratification.
Both baseline and follow-up QoL monitoring were useful for patient risk stratification in a real-life HF cohort. Worse QoL may warn of a worse prognosis. Widespread QoL monitoring in routine clinical practice is recommended.
Lupón et al. (Fri,) studied this question.