Anabaptist Community Members' Perceptions and Preferences Related to Healthcare

A qualitative analysis of interprofessional healthcare team members’ perceptions of patient barriers to healthcare engagement

BACKGROUND Healthcare systems increasingly engage interprofessional healthcare team members such as case managers, social workers, and community health workers to work directly with patients and improve population health. This study elicited perspectives of interprofessional healthcare team members regarding patient barriers to health and suggestions to address these barriers. METHODS This is...

Facilitating Community Participants’ Research Engagement: Community Members’ Perceptions of Community-based Research

OBJECTIVES To describe the perspectives of community participants about engaging in community-based participatory research, and then to use the information to develop a model to depict the community participants' perceptions of interfacing with academic researchers. METHOD A diverse group of Native Hawaiian community-dwelling participants engaged in open-ended and semi-structured focus group ...

People Attitudes and Perceptions to the Urban Landscape Planning in Niro Daryaee Edged Community of Tehran

Medicine-related services in community pharmacy: public preferences for pharmacy attributes and promotional methods and comparison with pharmacists’ perceptions

BACKGROUND Public awareness of pharmacy services designed to support the use of medicines is low, yet little is known about how the public view promotion of these services, or their preferences for the attributes of pharmacies from which they would like to receive them. OBJECTIVE To compare the public's preferred attributes of pharmacies and methods for promoting medicine-related services wit...

Patient Admission Preferences and Perceptions

INTRODUCTION Understanding patient perceptions and preferences of hospital care is important to improve patients' hospitalization experiences and satisfaction. The objective of this study was to investigate patient preferences and perceptions of hospital care, specifically differences between intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital floor admissions. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of...