Why do elders delay responding to heart failure symptoms?

Nursing Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 274-282

  Jurgens, Corrine Y ^a   Hoke, Linda ^b   Byrnes, Janet ^a   Riegel, Barbara ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay; Elders; Heart failure; Symptom management

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AWARENESS; COGNITION; DYSPNEA; EMOTIONS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHILADELPHIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CARE;

EID: 68349095171     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0b013e3181ac1581     Document Type: Article

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