Home-based nursing interventions improve knowledge of disease and management in patients with heart failure

OBJECTIVE: to assess patient knowledge of heart failure by home-based measurement of two NOC Nursing Outcomes over a six-month period and correlate mean outcome indicator scores with mean scores of a heart failure Knowledge Questionnaire.METHODS: in this before-and-after study, patients with heart f...

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Main Authors: Karina de Oliveira Azzolin, Dayanna Machado Lemos, Amália de Fátima Lucena, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-02-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692015000100044&lng=en&tlng=en