Quality of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) care from the patient's perspective: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Current outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) guidelines recommend delivering patient-centred care. However, little is known about what patients define as good quality of OPAT care and what their needs and preferences are.The aim of this qualitative study is to explore the patients' perspective on high-quality care, and to explore what patient-centred care means to adult OPAT patients.

Design and setting

This is an explorative, descriptive study using qualitative methods. We conducted focus group interviews with 16 adult patients (5 female, 11 male) from 3 different hospitals, who received OPAT and 2 individual semistructured interviews with their informal caregivers in the Netherlands. We used purposive sampling to ensure diversity of participants. W

SUBMITTER: Berrevoets MAH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6252647 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature