Briones E, Lacalle JR, Reyes A, Villar E, Perez-Lozano MJ; International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Meeting.
Annu Meet Int Soc Technol Assess Health Care Int Soc Technol Assess Health Care Meet. 1997; 13: 80.
AETSA, Sevilla, Spain.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between generic and specific instruments for measuring health related quality of life and clinical markers of disease severity. METHODS: Design: Observational study to evaluate quality of care. Patients: 750 patients seeking for care due to chronic angina in 1992 and randomly chosen from medical records in all three university hospitals in Seville, Spain. Data: Ejection Fraction obtained from medical records and Quality of Life from a health survey conducted in 1996 in the same sample of patients. The survey included the Short Form 36 (SF-36) questionnaire and the items of New York Heart Association (NYHA) Heart Failure criteria. MEASURES: SF-36 global score and NYHA score according to age, gender and disease severity, measured as left ventricular ejection fraction. RESULTS: We present a descriptive analysis of each dimension of SF-36 and NYHA scores and their relationships with biological measures of cardiac function. We test the associations between patient-perceived health using generic and specific instruments and disease severity index in a particular cultural and health related values context.
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Keywords:
- Angina Pectoris
- Chronic Disease
- Health Surveys
- Heart Failure
- Humans
- Life
- New York
- Quality of Life
- Questionnaires
- Spain
- hsrmtgs
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UI: 102233082
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