Patient Perspectives

Factors affecting patient education from cultural perspectives

Introduction: Patient education is influenced by cultural factors. This studyaims to find out the role of culture in patient education.Methods: A qualitative study was conducted on 23 Iranian nurses. Inclusioncriteria were minimum 5 years of working experience in clinical nursing. Semistructured face to face interviews were used to collect the data. Interviews were taped, transcribed and analyz...

Nurses’ Perspectives on Factors Affecting Patient Safety: A Qualitative Study

Patient safety is a global concern that involves all healthcare members, so that achieving a high level safe care is responsibility of all healthcare services, particularly nurses. This qualitative study aimed to describe nurses’ perspectives on factors affecting patient safety. We recruited 32 nurses working in teaching hospitals by purposeful sampling method. Data were collected by semi-struc...

factors affecting patient education from cultural perspectives

introduction: patient education is influenced by cultural factors. this study aims to find out the role of culture in patient education. methods: a qualitative study was conducted on 23 iranian nurses. inclusion criteria were minimum 5 years of working experience in clinical nursing. semistructured face to face interviews were used to collect the data. interviews were taped, transcribed and ana...

Shame in Physician-Patient Interactions: Patient Perspectives

MyUMC Patient Portal: patient and professional perspectives

Introduction: In 2010 the UMC Utrecht started with the introduction of patient portals for patients with chronic conditions. The evaluation concerned portals of three patient groups: adults with HIV, adolescents with CF and parents of children with CF. The portals had six modules: ‘overview treatment appointments’, ‘overview of medication and test results’, ‘e-consult (a-synchronous)’, ‘request...