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Economic hardship associated with managing chronic illness: a qualitative inquiry

BACKGROUND: Chronic illness and disability can have damaging, even catastrophic, socioeconomic effects on individuals and their households. We examined the experiences of people affected by chronic heart failure, complicated diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to inform patient centre...

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Autores principales: Jeon, Yun-Hee, Essue, Beverley, Jan, Stephen, Wells, Robert, Whitworth, Judith A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2766369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19818128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-182