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    Patients' and ambulance service clinicians' experiences of prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke: a qualitative study

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    Author
    Togher, Fiona Jayne
    Davy, Zowie
    Siriwardena, Aloysius
    Keyword
    Emergency Medical Services
    Stroke
    Attitude of Health Personnel
    Myocardial Infarction
    Patient Satisfaction
    Journal title
    Emergency Medicine Journal
    
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/594
    DOI
    10.1136/emermed-2012-201507
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    BACKGROUND: Patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke commonly present first to the ambulance service. Little is known about experiences of prehospital care which are important for measuring the quality of services for patients with AMI or stroke. AIM: We explored experiences of patients, who had accessed the ambulance service for AMI or stroke, and clinicians regularly treating patients for these conditions in the prehospital setting. METHOD: A qualitative research design was employed to obtain rich and detailed data to explore and compare participants' experiences of emergency prehospital care for AMI and stroke. RESULTS: We conducted 33 semistructured interviews with service users and clinicians and one focus group with five clinicians. Four main themes emerged: communication, professionalism, treatment of condition and the transition from home to hospital. Patients focused on both personal and technical skills. Technical knowledge and relational skills together contributed to a perception of professionalism in ambulancepersonnel. Patients' experience was enhanced when physical, emotional and social needs were attended to and they emphasised effective communication within the clinician-patient relationship to be the key. However, we found a discrepancy between paramedics' perceptions of patients' expectations and patients' lack of knowledge of the paramedic role. CONCLUSIONS: Factors that contribute to better patient experience are not necessarily understood in the same way by patients and clinicians. Our findings can contribute to the development of patient experience measures for prehospital care. https://emj.bmj.com/content/emermed/30/11/942.full.pdf This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2012-201507
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