Removing the boundaries: Palliative care for patients with heart failure

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 291-296

  Horne, Gillian ^a   Payne, Sheila ^b  

^a Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Lived experience; Palliative care; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYING; FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEAR; FEMALE; FRIEND; FRUSTRATION; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONELINESS; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL WORK; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ENGLAND; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; WALKING;

EID: 2942668309     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216304pm893oa     Document Type: Article

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