TY - JOUR
T1 - Do heart failure patients understand their diagnosis or want to know their prognosis? Heart failure from a patient's perspective
AU - Banerjee, P.
AU - Gill, L.
AU - Muir, V.
AU - Nadar, S.
AU - Raja, Y.
AU - Goyal, D.
AU - Koganti, S.
PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - The management of heart failure has evolved to become a multidisciplinary affair. Constraints of time and resources limit the amount of counselling that is given to heart failure patients in hospital and, with the advent of community heart failure specialist nurses, there is a trend to move more of these services into the community. Most heart failure patients are elderly and may find the information given to them, at the time of diagnosis and later on at home by heart failure nurses, difficult to grasp. In this study, patients' perspectives of a diagnosis of heart failure, their understanding of the diagnosis as well as what being diagnosed with heart failure means to them were recorded. Patients were questioned on whether the news of the heart failure diagnosis was broken to them in a sympathetic manner and how they felt about the information provided at diagnosis.
AB - The management of heart failure has evolved to become a multidisciplinary affair. Constraints of time and resources limit the amount of counselling that is given to heart failure patients in hospital and, with the advent of community heart failure specialist nurses, there is a trend to move more of these services into the community. Most heart failure patients are elderly and may find the information given to them, at the time of diagnosis and later on at home by heart failure nurses, difficult to grasp. In this study, patients' perspectives of a diagnosis of heart failure, their understanding of the diagnosis as well as what being diagnosed with heart failure means to them were recorded. Patients were questioned on whether the news of the heart failure diagnosis was broken to them in a sympathetic manner and how they felt about the information provided at diagnosis.
KW - Counselling
KW - Heart failure
KW - Patient information
KW - Prognosis
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U2 - 10.7861/clinmedicine.10-4-339
DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.10-4-339
M3 - Article
C2 - 20849006
AN - SCOPUS:78049436917
SN - 1470-2118
VL - 10
SP - 339
EP - 343
JO - Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London
JF - Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London
IS - 4
ER -