Poor self-rated health predicts mortality in patients with stable chronic heart failure

Conclusion:
Poor self-rated health predicts mortality in our long-term follow-up of patients with stable chronic heart failure, even after adjustment for established risk predictors. We encourage clinicians to capture patient-reported self-rated health routinely as an easy to assess, clinically meaningful measure and pay extra attention when self-rated health is poor.

Source: European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - November 30, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Inkrot, S., Lainscak, M., Edelmann, F., Loncar, G., Stankovic, I., Celic, V., Apostolovic, S., Tahirovic, E., Trippel, T., Herrmann-Lingen, C., Gelbrich, G., Düngen, H.-D. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research