Improving care for people with heart failure in Uganda: Serial in-depth interviews with patients' and their health care professionals

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Namukwaya, Elizabeth ^a   Grant, Liz ^b   Downing, Julia ^a   Leng, Mhoira ^a   Murray, Scott A ^b  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Palliative care; Patient experience; Qualitative research; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; STANDARDS; UGANDA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85019634202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-017-2505-0     Document Type: Article

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