How do health-care professionals perceive oxygen therapy? A critical interpretive synthesis of the literature

How do healthcare professionals perceive oxygen therapy? A Critical Interpretative Synthesis of the Literature

How do respiratory patients perceive oxygen therapy

Oxygen therapy is a common intervention in healthcare worldwide; yet, despite universal use, it is evident through poor practice that oxygen is often prescribed and administered injudiciously. It is proposed that possibly an influencing culture presides, whereby oxygen is often poorly understood and uncertainty regarding its use exists. It is unclear where the origins of this culture lie but it...

How do patients with colorectal cancer perceive treatment and care compared with the treating health care professionals?

BACKGROUND Patient evaluations are widely used in quality assessment of health services. It is widely recognized that patients and professionals provide a different perspective on quality. However, the extent to which they differ and the conceptual areas in which they differ is not well understood. OBJECTIVES We sought to examine how well professional and patient assessments of hospital healt...

How do health care professionals assess patients when initiating insulin therapy? A qualitative study.

AIMS To explore how health care professionals (HCPs) assess patients when initiating insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes. METHODS Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews were conducted with 41 health care professionals in Malaysia in 2010-2011. A semi-structured topic guide was used for the interview. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using the Nvivo9 software based...

Which Health Cares Are Related to the Family Physician? A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Literature

BACKGROUND This study provided the theoretical basis for program development through a new conceptualization of the concept of family physician related health care. METHODS Critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) was used to carry out qualitative analysis and synthesis of the literature from 2006 until 2015. At the beginning of CIS, the search strategy was designed to access electronic database...