Modelling services to meet the palliative care needs of chronic heart failure patients and their families: Current practice in the UK

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 385-390

  Selman, Lucy ^a   Harding, Richard ^a   Beynon, Teresa ^b   Hodson, Fiona ^b   Coady, Elaine ^b   Hazeldine, Caroline ^b   Gibbs, Louise ^c   Higginson, Irene J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ST CHRISTOPHER S HOSPICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Palliative; Policy; Service development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELEPHONE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CARDIOLOGY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FAMILY HEALTH; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 34547897723     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216307077698     Document Type: Article

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