Perceptions of emergency care using a seizure care pathway for patients presenting to emergency departments in the North West of England following a seizure: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To establish the appropriateness of a previously developed seizure care pathway by exploring to what extent patients valued the intervention and perceived it as being helpful or not.

Design

Qualitative descriptive study, using semistructured, in-depth interviews and thematic template analysis, theoretically informed by critical realism.

Setting

In North West England, a seizure care pathway has been developed in collaboration with a specialist neurology hospital to support clinical management of seizure patients on initial presentation to the emergency department (ED), as well as access to follow-up services on discharge, with the aim of improving patient experience. Three National Health Service (NHS) EDs and a specialist neurology hospital provided the set

SUBMITTER: Male LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6169770 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature