title: Older patients with chronic heart failure within Swedish community health care: a record review of nursing assessments and interventions.
abstract: Nursing records can provide a valuable source of information for the researcher. In this study, community nursing records for two periods of two years were reviewed retrospectively in order to locate and analyse statements relating to the monitoring of patients with chronic heart failure. The older people being studied were drawn from nursing homes, specialist housing for older people, and those living in their own homes. The total number of records included in the sample was 161, and appropriate instruments were used to collect the data in a systematic manner. However, the records were found to be largely ordered in a chronological sequence, and written in a narrative form, but without a shared format or structure. Drug administration was the most commonly recorded nursing intervention, while only 12 per cent of records indicated that patients were being weighed, and 3 per cent recorded health promotion activities.
authors.affiliation: Homerton College, Cambridge School of healthb studies.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Adams