Narratives of a man with severe chronic heart failure and his wife in palliative advanced home care over a 4.5 year period

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-22

  Brännström, Margareta ^a   Ekman, Inger ^b   Boman, Kurt ^a   Strandberg, Gunilla ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Close relative; Heart failure; Home care; Palliative care; Patient; Phenomenological hermeneutic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FATIGUE; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

FATIGUE; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 44449102833     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/conu.2007.27.1.10     Document Type: Article

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