Understanding clinician influences and patient perspectives on outpatient discharge decisions: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To observe the influences on clinicians when discharging patients, to explore patients' perspectives concerning their discharge or follow-up decision and to identify what patients think is important for clinicians to consider when taking a discharge decision.

Design

Qualitative study involving observations of consultations and semistructured interviews with outpatients.

Setting

National Health Service outpatient clinics at a university hospital secondary referral centre.

Participants

64 consultations were observed followed by 56 interviews with patients aged over 18 years.

Main outcome measure

Analysis of patients' perspectives and expectations concerning whether or not they were discharged.

Results

25 types of influences were observed t

SUBMITTER: Harun NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5353329 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature