Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 39, Issue 4 , Pages 304-313 , July 2010

Impact of a disease-management program on symptom burden and health-related quality of life in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and their care partners

  • Kathleen Oare Lindell, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Division, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Kathleen Lindell, PhD, RN, Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, NW 628, UPMC Montefiore, 3459 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
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  • Ellen Olshansky, DNSc, RNC

      Affiliations

    • Nursing Science Program, College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine
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  • Mi-Kyung Song, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • Thomas G. Zullo, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Acute/Tertiary Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pennsylvania
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  • Kevin F. Gibson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Division, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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  • Naftali Kaminski, MD

      Affiliations

    • Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Division, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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  • Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Acute/Tertiary Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pennsylvania

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 Funding for this study was provided by the Fairbanks- Horix Foundation.

 Work was performed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

 Drs Lindell, Olshansky, Song, Zullo, Gibson, Kaminski, and Hoffman have no conflict of interest.

PII: S0147-9563(09)00205-2

doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.08.005

Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 39, Issue 4 , Pages 304-313 , July 2010

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