Negotiating the care-giving role: family members’ experience during critical exacerbation of COPD in Norway

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 612-620

  Aasbø, Gunvor ^a,b   Rugkåsa, Jorun ^a   Solbrække, Kari N ^b   Werner, Anne ^a  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

acute exacerbation; chronic illness; emergency services; informal caregivers; qualitative study

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORWAY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NORWAY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 85011915636     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12350     Document Type: Article

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