[Quality of life in patients with heart failure: the perspective of primary health care].

Objective: To measure and identify the dimensions and determinants of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with chronic heart failure.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study, in which HRQoL was measured with the short-form (SF)-36 and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) in 544 clinically-stable patients with chronic heart failure managed by 97 primary care physicians.

Results: The mean age of the patients was 77.