Cardiac Rehabilitation And Quality Of Life Scores

Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) Calculator

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Domain score entry

Use validated domain scores on a 0–100 scale. Higher scores indicate better health status.

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Scoring limitation: This calculator averages four supplied domain scores. It does not convert raw item responses into domain scores and must not be used as a substitute for the official KCCQ questionnaire and scoring instructions.

About KCCQ scoring

The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire is a patient-reported measure of heart-failure-related symptoms, physical and social limitations, and quality of life over a recent recall period. Scores are transformed to a 0–100 scale, where higher scores represent better health status.

Overall Summary Score

For the full KCCQ, the Overall Summary Score is the average of four domain scores: Physical Limitation, Total Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Social Limitation. Total Symptoms combines Symptom Frequency and Symptom Burden scores.

Domain supplied	Role in summary
Physical Limitation	Included directly
Total Symptoms	Combined symptom frequency and symptom burden domain score
Quality of Life	Included directly
Social Limitation	Included directly

Important use notes

Enter domain scores that have already been calculated using the appropriate official KCCQ version and scoring instructions.
Do not enter raw questionnaire response codes into these fields.
Do not interpret this arithmetic result as a diagnostic test or an independent treatment recommendation.

References

Green CP, Porter CB, Bresnahan DR, Spertus JA.

Development and evaluation of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire: a new health status measure for heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2000;35(5):1245–1255.

doi:10.1016/S0735-1097(00)00531-3

Spertus JA, Jones PG, Sandhu AT, Arnold SV.

Interpreting the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire in clinical trials and clinical care: JACC state-of-the-art review. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020;76(20):2379–2390.

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2020.09.542

Development and Validation of a Short Version of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire.

Describes full KCCQ domain structure and summary-score construction; use the version-specific scoring method when working with KCCQ-12.

Full text at PubMed Central

Clinical disclaimer: This page performs arithmetic on supplied domain scores only. It does not reproduce the licensed questionnaire, validate source responses, or independently verify how domain scores were obtained. Confirm the correct KCCQ version and scoring procedure before clinical or research use.