Six key topics informal carers of patients with breathlessness in advanced disease want to learn about and why: MRC phase i study to inform an educational intervention

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Farquhar, Morag ^a   Penfold, Clarissa ^b   Benson, John ^b   Lovick, Roberta ^c   Mahadeva, Ravi ^b   Howson, Sophie ^d   Burkin, Julie ^b   Booth, Sara ^b   Gilligan, David ^b   Todd, Christopher ^e   Ewing, Gail ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Lay Carer Representative   (United Kingdom)

^d SK Nurses   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DYSPNEA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; KNOWLEDGE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PANIC; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; CAREGIVER; COMPLICATION; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CAREGIVERS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 85019098212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177081     Document Type: Article

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