Patient Perspectives of High-Quality Care on the Liver Transplant Waiting List: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: The prevalence of advanced liver disease and listing for liver transplantation is increasing. Prior assessments of quality of care neither incorporate nor emphasize the patient perspective on quality of care, which may impact clinical outcomes. Our aim was to identify patients' perceptions on what constitutes high quality of care, comparing the findings to existing frameworks and assessments to determine if a patient-derived tool assessing quality of care could facilitate efforts to improve health care. We conducted semistructured interviews of patients wait-listed for liver transplantation, asking patients to describe the quality of their health care with a specific focus on how coordination, communication, office visits, hospitalizations, and cost affect their perceptions of the quality

SUBMITTER: Shen NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8363064 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature