Home Care Utilization by Congestive Heart Failure Patients: A Pilot Study

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 146-162

  Anderson, Mary Ann ^a   Pena, Rose Ann ^b   Helms, Lelia B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Visiting Nurse Homemaker Assoc W   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING; PILOT STUDY; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032040259     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1998.tb00333.x     Document Type: Article

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