Six Minute -Walk Test: Its Clinical and Application Way in Patients with Heart Failure
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Reproducibility and responsiveness of quality of life assessment and six minute walk test in elderly heart failure patients.
OBJECTIVE To examine the reproducibility and responsiveness to change of a six minute walk test and a quality of life measure in elderly patients with heart failure. DESIGN Longitudinal within patient study. SUBJECTS 60 patients with heart failure (mean age 82 years) attending a geriatric outpatient clinic, 45 of whom underwent a repeat assessment three to eight weeks later. MAIN OUTCOME ...
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