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01-05-2018 | Capsule Commentary
Capsule Commentary on Burke et al., Evaluating the Quality of Patient Decision-making Regarding Post-acute Care
Author:
Lauren S. Penney, PhD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 5/2018
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Excerpt
This qualitative study by Burke et al.
1 describes the degree to which people are enabled to make high-quality, post-acute care (PAC) decisions. They conducted interviews with hospitalized older adult patients (
n = 32) and their caregivers (
n = 22), while the individual was in the hospital waiting for placement or after they were placed in a skilled nursing facility. Transcripts were analyzed inductively for themes, which were then deductively grouped under broad concepts from the Ottawa Decision-Support Framework (ODSF). …