Tackling Patient-Reported Outcomes in Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure Identifying Disease-Specific Symptoms?

Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) both significantly affect morbidity and mortality and also account for high symptom burden and impaired health-related quality of life (hrQoL). Several well-designed and broadly implemented patient reported outcome instruments are available for both AF and HF and can easily measure hrQoL in each disease process. A better understanding of the diverse phenotypes of AF and HF, as well as the heterogeneous treatment effects of disease specific interventions, is necessary to further disentangle the complex relationship between symptoms of AF and HF.