An ethnographic study of the process of medication discharge education (MDE)

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 341-348

  Martens, Karen H ^a  

^a CAPITAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Discharge education; Elderly; Ethnography; Medication

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT EDUCATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION;

EID: 0031990523     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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