Home Care for Ventilator-Assisted Children: Implications for the Children, Their Families, and Health Policy

Children's Health Care

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 112-120

  Aday, Lu Ann ^a   Wegener, Donna Hope ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MENTAL STRESS; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; VENTILATOR;

CHILD; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; HOME NURSING; HUMAN; INTERVIEWS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNITED STATES; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0024080226     PISSN: 02739615     EISSN: 15326888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326888chc1702_9     Document Type: Article

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