Self care in patients with chronic heart failure

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 644-654

  Riegel, Barbara ^a   Lee, Christopher S ^b   Dickson, Victoria Vaughan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DEPRESSION; EXPERIENCE; GENDER; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART STRESS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KNOWLEDGE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SODIUM RESTRICTION; STRESS;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; SELF CARE;

EID: 80055056855     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2011.95     Document Type: Review

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