CHF-PROM: validation of a patient-reported outcome measure for patients with chronic heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to a lack of an appropriate disease-specific patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument for chronic heart failure including its social support and treatment aspects in China, this study was performed to develop a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for patients with chronic heart failure and evaluate its reliability, validity, and feasibility.

Methods

According to the standard PROM guidelines established by the Food and Drug Administration, an item pool was formed by reviewing a large amount of relevant literature and interviewing patients with chronic heart failure about their main symptoms. Thus, the primary scale was created after adjusting the items and language with the help of patients and experts in the field. Next, 155 patients from 8 hospitals in d

SUBMITTER: Tian J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5859646 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature