Managing patients with heart failure: A qualitative study of multidisciplinary teams with specialist heart failure nurses

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 466-471

  Glogowska, Margaret ^a   Simmonds, Rosemary ^b   McLachlan, Sarah ^c   Cramer, Helen ^b   Sanders, Tom ^d   Johnson, Rachel ^b   Kadam, Umesh T ^c   Lasserson, Daniel S ^a   Purdy, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comorbidities; Diagnosis prognosis; Heart failure; Medications; Patient education; Unplanned hospital admissions

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ENGLAND; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ENGLAND; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NURSE CLINICIANS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84941331047     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1845     Document Type: Article

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