Patient Reported Experiences of Receiving Person-Centred, Nurse-Led Follow-Up After Revascularisation for Intermittent Claudication: Secondary Analysis of a Randomised Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To evaluate the quality of care from the patients' perspective after receiving either person-centred, nurse-led follow-up or standard care after surgical treatment of intermittent claudication.

Design

Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial.

Methods

Patients at two centres for vascular surgery in Stockholm, Sweden were randomised to either a person-centred, nurse-led follow-up programme (intervention group) or a standard follow-up programme with surgeons. During their visits at 4 to 8 weeks and 1 year after surgery, they received the questionnaire Quality from patients' perspective with 28 items. The patients responded to each item from two aspects: (1) how they perceived the quality of received care and (2) subjective importance (how important the car

SUBMITTER: Haile ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12181151 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature