Patients' annual income adequacy, insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses related to heart failure care
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Self-care behaviors and related factors in patients with heart failure reffering to medical & educational center of heart in Rasht.
Introduction: Heart failure is considered to be one of the most common chronic diseases in the ‎world which puts high expenses on health care systems. In order to control heart failure there are a ‎lot of ways self care is one of them. ‎ Objective: This survey has been conducted with the aim of studying self-care behaviors and related ‎factors in patients with CHF. &...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart & Lung
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0147-9563
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2014.05.013