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Health-Related Quality of Life in Cardiac Patients

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Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

Abstract

Increased longevity and the development of sophisticated healthcare technologies and treatments mean that many people now live with chronic health conditions such as cardiovascular disease over extended periods of their lives. In this context, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has become an important endpoint in evaluations of health interventions. Its use reflects an increasingly biopsychosocial perspective in modern healthcare. HRQoL research first developed in cancer settings where the balance of quality and duration of life became a key concern in decisions to use novel treatments with very serious side-effects and only partial efficacy. However, over the past 20 years there has been a burgeoning of research activity in every major chronic illness category. In cancer, the European Organisation for Research on the Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) has been established by interested professionals.1

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  2. Klinische Kardiologie II, Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen, Germany

    Helmut Gohlke FACC, FESC

  3. Institute of Health Sciences Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Irene Hellemans MD, (Speciality Cardiology), PhD

  4. Department of Cardiology, Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Irene Hellemans MD, (Speciality Cardiology), PhD

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McGee, H. (2007). Health-Related Quality of Life in Cardiac Patients. In: Perk, J., et al. Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-502-8_31

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