Maintaining integrity: Women and treatment seeking for the symptoms of potential cardiac illness

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1461-1476

  Turris, Sheila A ^a   Johnson, Joy L ^b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emergency room; Experiences; Grounded theory; Health care; Heart health; Illness and disease; Responses; Users' experiences; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE; HEART DISEASE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THERAPY DELAY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 54049147339     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732308325824     Document Type: Article

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