Palliative care for patients with heart failure: Facilitators and barriers - A cross sectional survey of German health care professionals

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ziehm, Jeanette ^a   Farin, Erik ^a   Schäfer, Jonas ^a   Woitha, Kathrin ^a   Becker, Gerhild ^a   Köberich, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Experiences; Germany; Healthcare professionals; Heart failure; Palliative care; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84982883883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1609-x     Document Type: Article

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