A systematic review of patient-reported dignity and dignified care during acute hospital admission.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To synthesize quantitative evidence on levels of dignity during acute hospital admission and identify barriers and facilitators to patients' dignity or dignified care from the perspective of hospitalized patients. The secondary aim was to examine the relationship between dignity and demographic, clinical and psychological characteristics of patients.

Design

A systematic review based on the protocol of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline for reporting systematic reviews.

Data sources

Five electronic databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, AgeLine) were searched in February 2021, followed by backward-forward searching using Web of Science and Scopus databases.

Review methods

Potentially eligible articles were

SUBMITTER: Fuseini AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9795980 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature