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Heart Failure Quality of Care

Reports from Duke University, Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics advance knowledge in heart failure quality of care

Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, February 7th, 2010

New investigation results, 'Outcomes, health policy, and managed care: relationships between patient-reported outcome measures and clinical measures in outpatients with heart failure,' are detailed in a study published in American Heart Journal. "Patient-reported outcomes are increasingly used to assess the efficacy of new treatments. Understanding relationships between these and clinical measures can facilitate their interpretation," scientists in the United States report.

"We examined associations between patient-reported measures of health-related quality of life and clinical indicators of disease severity in a large, heterogeneous sample of patients with...

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