Heart failure symptom assessment and management: Can caregivers serve as proxy?

Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-148

  Quinn, Christina ^a   Dunbar, Sandra B ^b   Higgins, Melinda ^a  

^a GORDON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiver; Heart failure; Proxy; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; EVALUATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SELF CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SELF CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77649091062     PISSN: 08894655     EISSN: 15505049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JCN.0b013e3181bf93a0     Document Type: Article

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