One patient is different from the next: Coronary heart disease patients’ needs and preferences for web-based self-management support

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Authors
  • S. Vosbergen
Supervisors
  • M.W.M. Jaspers
Cosupervisors
  • N.B. Peek
  • R.A. Kraaijenhagen
Award date 16-01-2014
ISBN
  • 9789088917738
Number of pages 242
Organisations
  • Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA)
Abstract The aim of this thesis is to gain an understanding of coronary heart disease (CHD) patients’ needs and preferences for self-management support through eHealth. The findings in this thesis can be used to inform and improve the design of eHealth applications for these patients.
Document type PhD thesis
Note Chapter 2 was published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics, 82(12), p. 1183-94, © Elsevier, 2013. Chapter 3 was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research 2012, 14 (5); e140, available at www.jmir.org/2012/5/e140/. Chapter 4 was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research 2014, 16(1);e1, available at www.jmir.org/2014/1/e1/. Both chapters 3 and 4 are open-access articles distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on hwww.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. Chapter 5 was published in Patient Preference and Adherence 2014, 8:631-642, available at dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S57797.
Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Language English
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