Never-ending making sense: Towards a substantive theory of the information-seeking behaviour of newly diagnosed cancer patients

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2096-2104

  McCaughan, Eilis ^a   McKenna, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Information seeking; Newly diagnosed cancer patients nurses; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

EID: 35148842382     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01817.x     Document Type: Article

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