Journal article
From breathless to failure: Symptom onset and diagnostic meaning in patients with heart failure. A qualitative study
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Objectives: To explore two key points in the heart failure diagnostic pathway – symptom onset and diagnostic meaning - from the patient perspective.
Design: Qualitative interview study.
Setting: Participants were recruited from a secondary care clinic in central England following referral from primary care.
Participants: Over age 55 years with a recent (<1 year) diagnosis of heart failure confirmed by a cardiologist following initial presentation to primary care. <...>
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013648
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+ National Institute for Health Research
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Taylor, C
Hobbs, F
Marshall, T
Grant:
DRF-2012-05-407
CLAHRC-WM
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Open Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 1-8
- Publication date:
- 2017-03-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-01-19
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- ISSN:
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2044-6055
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pubs:672309
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- pubs:672309
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- Deposit date:
- 2017-01-23
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- © Taylor, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Taylor, et al. Published by BMJ Publishing Group. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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