Unplanned admissions and the organisational management of heart failure: A multicentre ethnographic, qualitative study

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SELF CARE; TERMINAL CARE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; ENGLAND; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

AGED; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84949496946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007522     Document Type: Article

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