Ethical considerations in prehospital ambulance based research: qualitative interview study of expert informants

The Tanzanian trauma patients' prehospital experience: a qualitative interview-based study

OBJECTIVES We sought to characterise the prehospital experience of Tanzanian trauma patients, and identify barriers and facilitators to implement community-based emergency medical systems (EMS). SETTINGS Our study was conducted in the emergency department of an urban national referral hospital in Tanzania. PARTICIPANTS A convenience sample of 34 adult trauma patients, or surrogate family me...

The qualitative research interview.

BACKGROUND Interviews are among the most familiar strategies for collecting qualitative data. The different qualitative interviewing strategies in common use emerged from diverse disciplinary perspectives resulting in a wide variation among interviewing approaches. Unlike the highly structured survey interviews and questionnaires used in epidemiology and most health services research, we examin...

The interview in qualitative research.

Ethical considerations in adherence research

Poor adherence to treatment is a common cause of medical treatment failure. Studying adherence is complicated by the potential for the study environment to impact adherence behavior. Studies performed without informing patients about adherence monitoring must balance the risks of deception against the potential benefits of the knowledge to be gained. Ethically monitoring a patient's adherence t...

Ethical considerations in phenomenological research.

Wendy Walker examines some important ethical issues that researchers need to consider before and during phenomenological research. She argues that failure to address such issues means putting at risk the rights of research participants.