Our patients' fears may be getting the better of them: How do we deal with it?

Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 233-234

  Kaplan, Alan ^a   Small, Iain ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Executive Committee   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FATIGUE; FEAR; FRUSTRATION; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE; PANIC; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SELF CARE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THERAPY EFFECT;

ASTHMA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SELF CARE; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 80052556487     PISSN: 14714418     EISSN: 14751534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4104/pcrj.2011.00068     Document Type: Editorial

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