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Patient Education In The Hospital-At-Home Care Context, Heli Vaartio-Rajalin, Linda Nyholm, Lisbeth Fagerström
Patient Education In The Hospital-At-Home Care Context, Heli Vaartio-Rajalin, Linda Nyholm, Lisbeth Fagerström
Patient Experience Journal
The objective of this study is to describe adult patients’ and their family caregivers’ experiences of patient education in the hospital-at-home care context. Methods included a cross-sectional descriptive study including three hospital-at-home units in Finland. Adult, non-palliative patients (n = 27) and their family caregivers (n = 18) were interviewed pairwise by telephone, and the data analyzed with inductive thematic content analysis. COREQ guidelines were used to plan and guide the study design. Results concluded both patients and family caregivers seemed to have quite similar knowledge expectations, which only differs slightly from findings in other in- or outpatient contexts. In …