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The New York Heart Association (NYHA) Classification provides a simple way of classifying the extent of heart failure. It classifies patients in one of four categories based on their limitations during physical activity; the limitations/symptoms are in regards to normal breathing and varying degrees in shortness of breath and or angina pain.
Year: 1994
Authors: The Criteria Committee of the New York Heart Association
Disease: Heart Failure
Outcome: Exercise capacity (including effort test)
See more tools that use this outcome Measure: Exercise capacity
See more tools that use this measure Number of RCTs that used this tool (in our study): 13
See the RCTs Scale: Lower scores are better Reference: The Criteria Committee of the New York Heart Association . Nomenclature and Criteria for Diagnosis of Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels. 9th ed Little, Brown & Co; Boston, Mass: 1994. pp. 253–256.
See more tools that use this outcome Measure: Exercise capacity
See more tools that use this measure Number of RCTs that used this tool (in our study): 13
See the RCTs Scale: Lower scores are better Reference: The Criteria Committee of the New York Heart Association . Nomenclature and Criteria for Diagnosis of Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels. 9th ed Little, Brown & Co; Boston, Mass: 1994. pp. 253–256.
Target population: General population
Focus Disease specific
Translations available: Yes
Original version validated: Yes
Original language: English
Form of delivery: Medical examination
Licence needed: No
