Tinkering and tailoring individual consultations: How practice nurses try to make cardiovascular risk communication meaningful

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 17-18, 2012, Pages 2590-2598

  Boase, Sue ^a   Mason, Dan ^a   Sutton, Stephen ^a   Cohn, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Health checks; Practice nurse; Prevention; Primary care; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84865306230     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2012.04167.x     Document Type: Article

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