Perspectives of a proposed patient navigator programme for people with chronic kidney disease in rural communities: Report from national workshops.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

People who live in rural areas have reduced access to appropriate and timely healthcare, leading to poorer health outcomes than their metropolitan-based counterparts. The aims of the workshops were to ascertain participants' perspectives on barriers to access to dialysis and transplantation, to identify and prioritize the roles of a rural patient navigator, to discuss the acceptability and feasibility of implementing this role and identify possible outcomes that could be used to measure the success of the programme in a clinical trial.

Methods

Rural patients (n = 19), their caregivers (n = 5) and health professionals (n = 18) from Australia participated in three workshops. We analysed the data using thematic analysis.

Results

We identified four themes related to

SUBMITTER: Scholes-Robertson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826117 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature