Why the study?
Does nursing documentation accurately reflect patient-reported fatigue in elderly patients with chronic heart failure?
Does nursing documentation accurately reflect patient-reported fatigue in elderly patients with chronic heart failure?
Nurses often fail to document specific characteristics of fatigue, such as cognitive symptoms and decreased libido, reported by elderly patients with heart failure, highlighting a need for better patient-centered assessment.
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Nursing records may underrepresent patient-reported fatigue features in heart failure; leaves open whether standardized assessments improve documentation concordance.
Ekman et al. (2002) studied this question.
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