Experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Significant others' lifeworld perspective

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1407-1420

  Bremer, Anders ^a,b   Dahlberg, Karin ^b   Sandman, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Emergency medical services; Ethics; Families; Phenomenology; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEATH; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEMALE; FUTUROLOGY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HOPE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; PATIENT CARE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; SIGNIFICANT OTHER; WELLBEING;

ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 70350090304     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732309348369     Document Type: Article

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