Symptoms and treatment-seeking responses in women experiencing acute coronary syndrome for the first time

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 477-484

  Gallagher, Robyn ^a   Marshall, Andrea P ^b   Fisher, Murray J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODROMAL SYMPTOM; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951052423     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: 15273288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.10.019     Document Type: Article

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