Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands

Knowledge about heart failure and self-care persists following outpatient programme- a prospective cohort study from the Faroe Islands

Objectives: Longer life expectancies imply increased prevalence of heart failure. Blittle is known about the maintenance of disease specific knowledge following patient education. Our aim was to investigate if self-care and heart failure knowledge persists at 9 month follow up among patients with he...

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Main Authors: Tóra Róin, Katrin Á Lakjuni, Kasper Kyhl, Jacoba Thomsen, Anna Sofía Veyhe, Ása Róin, Rasmussen Jan, Strøm Marin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Subjects:
heart failure
self-care
knowledge
patient education
prospective cohort study
rural areas
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1653139

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1653139

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