Experiences of open heart surgery patients from admission to discharge: a qualitative study
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Aims: open heart surgery is a stressful experience for the patients and their family. Patients from admission time to discharge experience different levels of anxiety and in order to cope with that they use some strategies. This study had been done with the aim of identification of the experiences of open heart surgery patients from admission to discharge. Methods: Samples had been chosen purposefully from 8 women and 10 men who were under open heart surgery in three centers of educational hospitals of Tehran in 2012. Data were collected through unstructured interviews. With qualitative approach of analyzing the content of Graneheim & Lundman 2004
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