Journal article
Improving support for heart failure patients: a systematic review to understand patients' perspectives on self‐care
Abstract
AIMS: This systematic review aimed to generate patient-focussed recommendations to enhance support of heart failure self-care by examining patients' experiences, perspectives and self-care behaviours.
BACKGROUND: Despite increased recognition of the importance of heart failure self-care, patients' knowledge and practices around this self-care and interventions to improve it are inconsistent. Consequently, current guidelines focus on what the …
Authors
Spaling MA; Currie K; Strachan PH; Harkness K; Clark AM
Journal
Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 71, No. 11, pp. 2478–2489
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
November 2015
DOI
10.1111/jan.12712
ISSN
0309-2402