Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 99-108, March 1998

Continuous positive airway pressure: Patients' and caregivers' learning needs and barriers to use☆

  • Carol E. Smith, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Carol E. Smith, 13220 West 102nd St., Lenexa, KS 66215.
    • University of Kansas School of Nursing, the Pulmonary Division, the Sleep Disorders and Pulmonary Diagnostics Laboratory, and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Health Midwest Outreach, Kansas City, USA
    • Physicians Clinic, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
    • St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
    • ,
  • Linda S. Mayer, MN, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Kansas School of Nursing, the Pulmonary Division, the Sleep Disorders and Pulmonary Diagnostics Laboratory, and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Health Midwest Outreach, Kansas City, USA
    • Physicians Clinic, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
    • St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
    • ,
  • Claudette Metsker, MS, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Kansas School of Nursing, the Pulmonary Division, the Sleep Disorders and Pulmonary Diagnostics Laboratory, and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Health Midwest Outreach, Kansas City, USA
    • Physicians Clinic, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
    • St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
    • ,
  • Michele Voelker, MS, RN, ARNP

      Affiliations

    • University of Kansas School of Nursing, the Pulmonary Division, the Sleep Disorders and Pulmonary Diagnostics Laboratory, and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Health Midwest Outreach, Kansas City, USA
    • Physicians Clinic, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
    • St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
    • ,
  • Susan Baldwin, MS, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Kansas School of Nursing, the Pulmonary Division, the Sleep Disorders and Pulmonary Diagnostics Laboratory, and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Health Midwest Outreach, Kansas City, USA
    • Physicians Clinic, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
    • St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
    • ,
  • Robert A. Whitman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Kansas School of Nursing, the Pulmonary Division, the Sleep Disorders and Pulmonary Diagnostics Laboratory, and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Health Midwest Outreach, Kansas City, USA
    • Physicians Clinic, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
    • St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
    • ,
  • Susan K. Pingleton, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Kansas School of Nursing, the Pulmonary Division, the Sleep Disorders and Pulmonary Diagnostics Laboratory, and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Health Midwest Outreach, Kansas City, USA
    • Physicians Clinic, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
    • St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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☆ This research was funded through the Center for Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, grant No. K07.

PII: S0147-9563(98)90017-6

Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 99-108, March 1998

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