Overview
- Comprehensive review of the quality of life in patients suffering from various cardiovascular diseases
- Provides reliable information on the functioning of cardiac patients in many countries
- Clearly reviews the impact of modern cardiac treatment on patients' well-being Presents both established facts and new data
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
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“The purpose is to present the concept of quality of life in cardiovascular disease and its determinants to practitioners and provide future insights to researchers in this area. The audience for this book is broad: students, nurses, physicians in training, and practicing physicians caring for patients with cardiovascular problems, such as cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, neurologists, and stroke physicians. … It is easy to read and includes provides excellent references on quality of life questions.” (Krishna Kancharla, Doody’s Book Reviews, July, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz is Professor at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Krakow, founding member of Polish Society of Hypertension. Her main scientific interests are pathogenesis including genetics (member of Steering Committee for SYST-EUR and EPOGH), management and quality of life in hypertension. She is the author of over 500 papers and received many scientific awards i.e. International Society of Hypertension.
Mark Klocek, MD, PhD, a specialist in internal medicine and hipertensiology. He works at the I-st Department of Cardiology and Hypertension at Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland. Dr. Klocek's main scientific interests are diagnosis and management of arterial hypertension, blood vessels structure and function, and impact of treatment methods on health-related quality of life in patients with cardiovascular diseases.
Professor Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk, PhD; Medical sociologist; Head of Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine , and Department of Medical Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College. Main interest of research activity: health-related quality of life in chronic conditions and in older age.
Professor Chris Bulpitt trained as a Clinician but also as a Clinical Epidemiologist and a Clinical Pharmacologist. This interest in medicines and population outcomes naturally led to an interest in Quality of Life and how measures of this should be incorporated in clinical studies,especially in randomised controlled trials. He has published extensively on both QoL and trial methodology and outcomes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health-related quality of life in cardiovascular patients
Editors: Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Marek Klocek, Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Christopher J. Bulpitt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2769-5
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Italia Srl. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-2768-8Published: 31 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5585-8Published: 20 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-2769-5Published: 10 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 134
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Cardiology, Quality of Life Research