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Self-assessed symptoms in chronic heart failure--important information for clinical management
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- Ekman, Inger, 1952 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och hälsa,Institute of Health and Care Sciences
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Kjork, E. (författare)
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- Andersson, Bert, 1952 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för medicin, avdelningen för molekylär och klinisk medicin,Wallenberglaboratoriet,Institute of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine,Wallenberg Laboratory
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- 2007-03-24
- 2007
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Eur J Heart Fail. - : Wiley. - 1388-9842. ; 9:4, s. 424-8
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- AIM: To compare the patients' self-assessment of the severity of their symptoms with a physicians assessment and to evaluate the ability of self-assessed symptoms and ejection fraction (EF) to predict long-term survival in heart failure patients. METHOD: Patients (n=332) evaluated symptoms using a self-administered functional classification scale (Specific Activity Scale, SAS), which is equivalent to the NYHA scale. EF and NYHA functional class was also recorded. All patients were followed over a 3-year period. RESULTS: Approximately 50% of patients classified themselves into SAS class I. In contrast, the cardiologists classified only 9% of the patients as NYHA class I. In patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction (EF
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