Abstract
When research on heart transplantation was begun, life expectancy and survival rates of patients were of primary interest. But life has two dimensions: quantity as well as quality. With improvement of surgical techniques and pharmacological treatment the focus of scientific research has now changed from merely physical aspects to the psychosocial field of quality of life. The best source of information is the patient’s own judgement about his or her quality of life, attitudes, emotions, the complaints they suffered from, their problems, and challenges.
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Bunzel, B. (1998). The impact of physical complaints and quality of life in patients after heart transplantation. In: Albert, W., Bittner, A., Hetzer, R. (eds) Quality of Life and Psychosomatics. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95979-0_4
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