Adding life to years.
Heart disease is one of the most
common diseases in the Western world
and affects patients in various ways.
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Reference data
Interpreting HRQL data made easy.
MacNew License
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The key to interpreting patient-reported health-related quality of life scores for use in person-centered healthcare approaches in clinical practice is having reference data to place the scores in the context of a meaningful reference group. Norms for the MacNew, generated on 1.506 English-speaking Australian patients with IHD, have been available since 2002. Based on an international sample of 6.130 adult patients with angina, or MI or heart failure living in 22 countries an update to MacNew reference data have been provided.
A Turkish randomized controlled trial finds that 10 minutes of slow breathing twice a day, sustained over eight weeks, significantly improves MacNew quality of life and lowers blood pressure in patients who have undergone primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
A scoping review of 54 studies synthesizes how health-related quality of life has been researched in Indonesian cardiovascular patients, placing the MacNew among the disease-specific tools in use — while flagging a persistent gap between HRQoL research and real-world clinical implementation.