"I really should've gone to the doctor": Older adults and family caregivers describe their experiences with community-acquired pneumonia

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kelly, Caralyn ^a   Krueger, Paul ^a,b   Lohfeld, Lynne ^a   Loeb, Mark ^a   Edward, H Gayle ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODING; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELDERLY CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PNEUMONIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646880211     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-30     Document Type: Article

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