Facilitating needs-based support and palliative care for people with chronic heart failure: Preliminary evidence for the acceptability, inter-rater reliability, and validity of a needs assessment tool

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 912-925

  Waller, Amy ^a   Girgis, Afaf ^b   Davidson, Patricia M ^c,d   Newton, Phillip J ^c,d   Lecathelinais, Christophe ^e   MacDonald, Peter S ^c,d   Hayward, Christopher S ^c,d   Currow, David C ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c St Vincent's Heart Failure Service   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e HUNTER NEW ENGLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^f FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

heart failure; NAT: PD HF; Needs assessment; palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSULTATION; CONTENT VALIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING STAFF; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84877581946     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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