Health-related quality of life of patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators compared with that of pacemaker recipients

• Published in: EP Europace
• Main Authors: Leosdottir, Margret, Sigurdsson, Engilbert, Reimarsdottir, Gudrun, Gottskalksson, Gizur, Torfason, Bjarni, Vigfusdottir, Margret, Eggertsson, Sveinn, Arnar, David O
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2006
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; 80 and over; Anxiety; Defibrillators; Implantable; Depression; Female; Health Status; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Pacemaker; Artificial; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Stress; Psychological; Beck; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/6532; https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euj052

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field AIMS: Studies indicate a poorer quality of life (QoL) for implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients than for the general population. However, studies comparing the QoL of ICD pa...