The meaning of hospital care, as narrated by elderly patients with chronic heart failure

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 203-209

  Ekman, Inger ^a   Lundman, Berit ^b   Norberg, Astrid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032914196     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-9563(99)70060-9     Document Type: Article

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