Health providers need to improve communication with patients who have heart failure

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 57, Issue 536, 2007, Pages 180-182

  Ratcliffe, Thomas Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FAMILY COUNSELING; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIABILITY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOM; TRUST; HEART DISEASE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

COMMUNICATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 33847658661     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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