Chronic heart failure patients' experiences of German healthcare services: a protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a heterogeneous condition requiring complex treatment from diverse healthcare services. An increasingly holistic understanding of healthcare has resulted in contextual factors such as perceived quality of care, as well as patients' acceptance, preferences and subjective expectations of health services, all gaining in importance. How patients with CHF experience the use of healthcare services has not been studied within the scope of a systematic review in a German healthcare context. The aim of this scoping review is therefore to review systematically the experiences of patients affected by CHF with healthcare services in Germany in the literature and to map the research foci. Further objectives are to identify gaps in evidence, develop fu

SUBMITTER: Dieckelmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377537 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature