General public awareness of heart failure: Results of questionnaire survey during Heart Failure Awareness Day 2011

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 355-360

  Lainscak, Mitja ^a,b   Letonja, Mitja ^c   Kovacic, Dragan ^d   Hodoscek, Lea Majc ^e   Marolt, Apolon ^f   Bartolic, Cvetka Melihen ^g   Mulej, Marija ^h   Penko, Meta ⁱ   Poles, Janez ^j   Ravnikar, Tinkara ^k   Iskra, Mojca Savnik ^l   Pusnik, Cirila Slemenik ^f   Jug, Borut ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Slovenia)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c General Hospital Ptuj   (Slovenia)

^d General and Teaching Hospital Celje   (Slovenia)

^e General Hospital Murska Sobota   (Slovenia)

^f General Hospital Slovenj Gradec   (Slovenia)

^g General Hospital dr Franca Derganca   (Slovenia)

^h General Hospital Jesenice   (Slovenia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^j Hospital Topol ica   (Slovenia)

^k Izola General Hospital   (Slovenia)

^l General Hospital Bre ice   (Slovenia)

^m UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

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Author keywords

Attitudes; Awareness; Heart failure; Knowledge; Public health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLOVENIA;

EID: 84901048566     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: 18969151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2014.42589     Document Type: Article

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