QUALITY OF LIFE IN CONGESTIVE CARDIAC FAILURE

Quality of life is a major goal in the context of preventive and therapeutic cardiology. It is important both as an outcome measure in congestive heart failure (CHF) and as a consideration in individual physicians'' therapeutic decisions. There is a need for more research which is based on carefully selected measures of quality of life chosen as being of particular importance to patients and to the hypotheses being tested. Measures of the quality of life in chronically ill patients provide an important source of medical information in addition to laboratory or diagnostic tests. This book provides quality of life medication knowledge and compliance measured with the help of Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire. A significant improvement in quality of life medication knowledge and the effect in compliance behavior was observed. Assessment of outcome of this study needs long term follow up of patients.