Identifying patient concerns during consultations in tertiary burns services: development of the Adult Burns Patient Concerns Inventory.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Identifying the issues and concerns that matter most to burns survivors can be challenging. For a number of reasons, but mainly relating to patient empowerment, some of the most pressing concerns patients may have during a clinical encounter may not naturally be the focal point of that encounter. The Patient Concerns Inventory (PCI) is a tried and tested concept initially developed in the field of head and neck cancer that empowers patients during a clinical encounter through provision of a list of prompts that allows patients to self-report concerns prior to consultation. The aim of this study was to develop a PCI for adult burns patients. DESIGN:Content for the PCI was generated from three sources: burns health-related quality of life tools, thematic analysis of one-to-one int

SUBMITTER: Gibson JAG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6955499 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature