The notion of health in the opinion of the patients after implantation of artificial heart valves who are treated with the vitamin K antagonists (VKA)

Maria Merklinger-Soma; Roman Pfitzner; Mirosława Dzikowska

doi:10.5603/PP.2015.0049

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The notion of health in the opinion of the patients after implantation of artificial heart valves who are treated with the vitamin K antagonists (VKA)

Maria Merklinger-Soma

,

Roman Pfitzner

,

Mirosława Dzikowska

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5603/PP.2015.0049

Online publish date: 2016/01/14

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Merklinger-Soma M, Pfitzner R, Dzikowska M. The notion of health in the opinion of the patients after implantation of artificial heart valves who are treated with the vitamin K antagonists (VKA). Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa. 2015;23(3):291-299. doi:10.5603/PP.2015.0049.

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Merklinger-Soma, M., Pfitzner, R.,  & Dzikowska, M. (2015). The notion of health in the opinion of the patients after implantation of artificial heart valves who are treated with the vitamin K antagonists (VKA). Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa, 23(3), 291-299. https://doi.org/10.5603/PP.2015.0049

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Merklinger-Soma, Maria, Roman Pfitzner,  and Mirosława Dzikowska. 2015. "The notion of health in the opinion of the patients after implantation of artificial heart valves who are treated with the vitamin K antagonists (VKA)". Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa 23 (3): 291-299. doi:10.5603/PP.2015.0049.

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Merklinger-Soma, M., Pfitzner, R.,  and Dzikowska, M. (2015). The notion of health in the opinion of the patients after implantation of artificial heart valves who are treated with the vitamin K antagonists (VKA). Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa, 23(3), pp.291-299. https://doi.org/10.5603/PP.2015.0049

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Merklinger-Soma, Maria et al. "The notion of health in the opinion of the patients after implantation of artificial heart valves who are treated with the vitamin K antagonists (VKA)." Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa, vol. 23, no. 3, 2015, pp. 291-299. doi:10.5603/PP.2015.0049.

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Merklinger-Soma M, Pfitzner R, Dzikowska M. The notion of health in the opinion of the patients after implantation of artificial heart valves who are treated with the vitamin K antagonists (VKA). Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa. 2015;23(3):291-299. doi:10.5603/PP.2015.0049.

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Introduction. It is required for the patients who are after implantation of artificial heart valves to undertake different types of activities and their aim is to improve and maintain patients’ health.

Aim. The main aim is to define the term of health in the opinion of the patients after implanting artificial heart valves who are treated with VKA.

Material and methods. The data from 155 patients after implanting artificial heart valves who are treated with VKA was scrutinised. The List of Health Criteria (LKZ) written by Juczyński was used.

Results. The patients highly prized the statement „it is the most important not to feel any physical ailments” and this statement referred to the criterion of health understood as the attribute.

Conclusions. Ill people highly valued the criterion of health defined as the attribute which refers to the physical dimension of health and it may point out that the approach to this issue is instrumental.

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The notion of health in the opinion of the patients after implantation of artificial heart valves who are treated with the vitamin K antagonists (VKA)

Maria Merklinger-Soma , Roman Pfitzner , Mirosława Dzikowska

health; artificial heart valves; the vitamin K antagonists

Maria Merklinger-Soma

,

Roman Pfitzner

,

Mirosława Dzikowska