Symptom recognition and health care seeking among immigrants and native Swedish patients with heart failure

BMC Nursing

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hedemalm, Azar ^a   Schaufelberger, Maria ^a   Ekman, Inger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 46749091291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6955-7-9     Document Type: Article

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