Family caregiver support and hospitalizations of patients with heart failure

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 624-632

  Saunders, Mitzi M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 58949086992     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000341226.40640.ad     Document Type: Article

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