Quality of life in patients with heart failure and implantable cardioverter defibrillators: results from 9274 patients in 42 outpatient heart failure clinics in the National Norwegian Heart Failure Registry
QoL in patients with ICD improves after follow-up in an outpatient HF clinic, although not to the same extent as in patients without ICD. Thus, tailored interventions through a combined HF-ICD care programme are needed to improve QoL in this subgroup of patients with both HF and ICD.
Authors
- Tone M Norekvål (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3640-2119)
- Hanne Flagtvedt
- Tore Wentzel‐Larsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0318-4162)
- Torstein Hole (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5225-8482)
- Christer Reigstad Aase
Institutions
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- Haukeland University Hospital (NO)
- Privatsykehuset Haugesund (NO)
- Ålesund Hospital (NO)
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (NO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes
- Published
- 2025-07-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcaf062
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.78