Do heart failure patients understand their diagnosis or want to know their prognosis? Heart failure from a patient's perspective

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 339-343

  Banerjee, P ^a   Gill, L ^a   Muir, V ^a   Nadar, S ^a   Raja, Y ^a   Goyal, D ^a   Koganti, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counselling; Heart failure; Patient information; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 78049436917     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.10-4-339     Document Type: Article

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