BACKGROUND Women express various opinions regarding expectations and experiences of having Pap tests, particularly with regards to explanation of the procedure, its implications and results, and accompanied preventive health activities. AIM To explore patient expectations and experiences regarding Pap tests and associated screening activities. METHODS Semistructured interviews were conducte...

PURPOSE To explore patients' perspectives on surgical intervention for Dupuytren's disease (DD), focusing on patients' appraisal of results, involving previous experiences, expectations and patient characters. METHOD The participants were 21 men, mean age 66 years, scheduled for DD surgery. Qualitative interviews were conducted 2-4 weeks before surgery and 6-8 months after surgery. The model ...

BACKGROUND Effective interprofessional collaboration requires that team members share common perceptions and expectations of each other's roles. OBJECTIVE Describe and compare residents' and nurses' perceptions and expectations of their own and each other's professional roles in the context of an Internal Medicine ward. METHODS A convenience sample of 14 residents and 14 nurses volunteers f...

OBJECTIVE To describe patients' and their parents' expectations of orthodontic treatment. DESIGN A questionnaire survey of 100 patients and their primary care-givers attending a new patient orthodontic consultant clinic, at a teaching hospital. SETTING GKT Orthodontic Department, King's College Dental Hospital, London, UK. SUBJECTS The sample consisted of 100 participants who completed th...

Study Design Systematic review. Objective To examine the relationship between the patient's preoperative expectations and short-term postoperative satisfaction and functional outcome in lumbar spine surgery. Methods The Medline, Embase, and Cochrane databases were queried using a predefined search algorithm to identify all lumbar spine studies analyzing the influence of preoperative expectation...

INTRODUCTION There is evidence that meeting patients' expectations toward health care correlates with involvement in the treatment they receive. The most important patient expectations concern certain types of information: explanation of disease and treatment, health promotion, and improvement in quality of life. Other demands include proper rapport and emotional support. The aim of this paper ...

BACKGROUND Government initiatives see the provision of technology-assisted self-care as one of the key areas in which there is capacity for improving quality of care whilst reducing costs. However, levels of patient engagement in self-testing and management (STM) remain low. Little emphasis has been placed on understanding the patients' perspectives of the reasons for this limited engagement. T...

introduction: patient satisfaction is crucial to the long-run success in health care center. with regard to the highest patients’ referral to the emergency department and the existing challenges due to the patient’s need to urgent care, we aimed to evaluate health care services quality in this unit to find out whether the patients have different expectations from health care providers and if th...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain is a major economic and social health problem. Up to 79% of chronic pain patients are unsatisfied with their pain management. Meeting patients' expectations is likely to produce greater satisfaction with care. The challenge is to explore patients' genuine expectations and needs. However, the term expectation encompasses several concepts and may concern different aspects ...