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| Title |
Measuring patient outcomes in chronic heart failure: psychometric properties of the Care-Related Quality of Life survey for Chronic Heart Failure (CaReQoL CHF)
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, August 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12913-017-2452-4 |
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| Authors |
Paul van Kessel, Dolf de Boer, Michelle Hendriks, Anne Marie Plass |
| Abstract |
The Care-Related Quality of Life survey for Chronic Heart Failure (CaReQoL CHF) is a newly developed patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) that measures care-related quality of life in patients diagnosed with chronic heart failure. This study describes the psychometric properties of the questionnaire and its relationship with disease severity and global rating of quality of care. Insurance companies selected patients with a recorded diagnosis of chronic heart failure and for whom the hospital submitted a billing statement in the last year. Exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha and item-rest correlation were used to construct the CaReQoL CHF. Construct validity was assessed by examining the mean values of the CaReQoL CHF scales for the categories of the widely-used New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification and by correlating the global rating of quality of care with the CaReQoL CHF scales. One thousand eighteen patients with chronic heart failure filled out the CaReQoL CHF (RR: 35.7%). The CaReQoL CHF consists of 20 items and three scales: social and emotional problems, physical limitations, and being in safe hands. The mean scores of the three scales differed significantly for the NYHA categories, particularly for the social-emotional problems and physical limitation scales. The 'being in safe hands' scale showed a moderate positive correlation with the global rating of quality of care. The CaReQoL CHF is a concise and valid PROM that matches patients' priorities in healthcare. It adds a new element to existing quality of life questionnaires for patients with chronic heart failure, that is 'being in safe hands' scale. This scale is relevant for patients because they experience anxiety and tension about their condition. Future research should determine whether the CaReQoL CHF can help healthcare providers in daily practice to focus treatment on outcomes of care that are relevant to individual patients. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 50 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 10% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 14% |
| Unknown | 18 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 14% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Unknown | 22 | 44% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 December 2017.
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#15,703,431
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#5,621
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#122
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