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Finding resiliency in the face of financial barriers: Development of a conceptual framework for people with cardiovascular-related chronic disease
Abstract: Patients with chronic diseases often face financial barriers to optimize their health. These financial barriers may be related to direct healthcare costs such as medications or self-monitoring supplies, or indirect costs such as transportation to medical appointments. No known framework exists to understand how financial barriers impact patients’ lives or their health outcomes. We undertook a grounded theory study to develop such a framework. We used semistructured interviews with a purposive sample of participants with cardiovascular-related chronic disease (hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, or stroke) f...
Source: Medicine - December 1, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Qualitative Study Source Type: research