How a heart failure home care disease management program makes a difference

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 483-490

  Rosa, Mary Ann ^a,b  

^a Heart Failure Home Care Program   (United States)

^b QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COOPERATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; NEW YORK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 58149131851     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000335607.84095.82     Document Type: Article

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