Minnesota Living With Heart Failure

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.

Minnesota living with heart failure.

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. Content reliability and validity of a new measure the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire. Patients self assessment of their congestive heart failure. It provides scores for two dimensions physical and emotional and a total score.

The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire lhfq is a commonly used measure of health related quality of life in persons with heart failure researchers have questioned whether lhfq is sensitive to subtle differences and sufficiently responsive to clinical interventions because the instrument has demonstrated variable performance in clinical trials. One of the most commonly used instruments to measure hrqol in this population is the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire lhfq. The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire. The two questionnaires were administered to 589 patients with chronic heart failure who were registered with 97 primary care physicians.

Am heart j 1992 124 1017 1025 pubmed abstract rector ts kubo sh cohn jn. 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. It provides scores. The united states food and drug administration fda has approved the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire as medical device development tool mddt for use in controlled clinical trials designed to test.

To evaluate the applicability internal consistency and validity of the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq when used in primary care compared with the short form 36 sf 36 health survey. Comparison of different factor structures a. Health related quality of life hrqol is an important outcome in patients with heart failure. García pérez gemma navarro r.

However there are some concerns about its factor structure and alternatives have been proposed some including a third factor.