‘I think my body has become addicted to those tablets’. Chronic heart failure patients’ understanding of and beliefs about their illness and its treatment: A qualitative longitudinal study from Uganda

BACKGROUND: Patients with heart failure in Uganda present for health care with advanced structural heart disease, have repeated hospitalizations and poorly controlled disease symptoms. The reasons for these are unclear. Literature from other settings shows that patients’ understanding of their illne...

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Autores principales: Namukwaya, Elizabeth, Murray, Scott A., Downing, Julia, Leng, Mhoira, Grant, Liz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28957338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182876

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28957338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182876

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