Patients' experiences of intensive care diaries-A focus group study

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 278-287

  Egerod, Ingrid ^a,b   Bagger, Christine ^c  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Intensive care nursing; Patient diaries; Qualitative studies

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS;

EID: 77956618825     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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