Patients self assessment of their congestive heart failure.
Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq pdf.
The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq is one of the most widely used health related quality of life questionnaires for patients with heart failure hf.
Easy to administer short and easily understood.
Half of the 21 item minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq response categories are labeled 0 no 1 very little 5 very much and half are not 2 3 and 4.
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The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq is a reliable and valid patient oriented measure of the adverse effects of heart failure on a patient s life.
However there are some concerns about its factor structure and the homogeneity of items 7 10 13 17.
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Content reliability and validity of a new measure the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire.
The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq has been developed to measure health related quality of life hrqol status of heart failure hf patients.
The united states food drug administration fda has approved the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq as a medical device development tool mddt for use in controlled clinical trials designed to test superiority or non inferiority of medical devices in support of regulatory submissions.
Content reliability and validity of a new measure the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire.
11 10 04 minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire the following questions ask how much your heart failure heart condition affected your life during the past month 4 weeks.
The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq is a 21 item paper self administered questionnaire designed as a measure of heart failure as indicated by its adverse effects on.
It provides scores for two dimensions physical and emotional and a total score.