Patient perceptions of severe COPD and transitions towards death: A qualitative study identifying milestones and developing key opportunities

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Landers, Amanda ^a,b   Wiseman, Rachel ^c   Pitama, Suzanne ^b   Beckert, Lutz ^b,c  

^a Nurse Maude Hospice Palliative Care Service   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CANTERBURY DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DYING; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY CARE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; NURSING; OXYGEN THERAPY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANIC; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REASSURANCE; RECREATION; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESUSCITATION; SELF CARE; SPORT; TERMINAL CARE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERCEPTION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84938486669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20551010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npjpcrm.2015.43     Document Type: Article

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