Coelho Rui, Ramos Sónia, Prata Joana, Bettencourt Paulo, Ferreira António, Cerqueira-Gomes Mário
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de S. João, Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal.
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health. 2005 Oct 4;1:19. doi: 10.1186/1745-0179-1-19.
Quality of life is a major goal in the context of preventive and therapeutic cardiology. It is important, both as an outcome measure in clinical trials of congestive heart failure (CHF) and as a consideration in individual physicians' therapeutic decisions. In this article, quality of life concepts are reviewed, methods of measurement are explored and clinically significant changes on prognosis are discussed. 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.
生活质量是预防和治疗心脏病学领域的一个主要目标。它很重要,既作为充血性心力衰竭(CHF)临床试验中的一项结果指标,也作为个体医生治疗决策时的一项考量因素。本文回顾了生活质量的概念,探讨了测量方法,并讨论了对预后具有临床意义的变化。需要开展更多基于精心挑选的生活质量测量指标的研究,这些指标被认为对患者以及所检验的假设尤为重要。