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Seeking support after hospitalisation for injury: a nested qualitative study of the role of primary care
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In the UK, studies suggest that the transition from hospital to home after an injury can be a difficult time and many patients report feeling inadequately prepared. Patients often use primary care services after hospital discharge. These consultations provide opportunities to
consider problems that patients experience and to facilitate recovery. Little is known, however, about how patients and service providers view care after hospital discharge and the role played by primary care services, specifically GPs.
Aim
To identify good practice and unmet needs in
respect of post-discharge support for injured
patients.
Design and setting
Qualitative study using semi-structured
interviews at four sites (Bristol, Leicester/
Loughborough, Nottingham, and Surrey).
Method
Qualitative interviews with 40 service providers and 45 hospitalised injured patients.
Results
Although there were examples of wellmanaged
hospital discharges, many patients felt they were not provided with the information they needed about their injury, what to expect in
terms of recovery, pain control, return to work, psychological problems, and services to help meet their needs. They also described difficulty accessing services such as physiotherapy or counselling. Service providers identified problems with communication between secondary and primary care, lack of access to physiotherapy, poor communication about other services that may help patients, GP service and resource constraints, and difficulties in providing information to patients concerning likely prognosis.
Conclusion
Discharge from hospital after an injury can
be problematic for patients. Changes in both
secondary and primary care are required to
resolve this problem
Interaction with a zoomorphic robot that exhibits canid mechanisms of behaviour
No full textDespite parallels between the cooperative use of domestic dogs in human society today, the predicted similar deployment of robots in the future, and the plethora of superficially dog-like robotic entertainment devices, very little effort has been directed at exploiting any understanding of social cognition between dogs and humans when designing interactive robotic systems. This paper describes an experiment in which we gave interactive robots zoomorphic appearances and dog-like behavioural properties. We analysed human reactions to robots exhibiting differing levels of zoomorphism and dog-like behaviour during an interaction task; we were particularly interested to determine whether behaviour and/or appearance that mimicked that of dogs facilitated increased satisfaction in robot performance and a willingness to persevere with a robot that made mistakes. Our findings show that neither the appearance or behaviour of a robot had an impact on the participants' rating of robot performance whilst there was also no significant difference in the self-reported categories of frustration, excitement and desire to persist with an interaction. However, our findings suggest that differences in individual preferences are revealed when people are asked to interact with robots that exhibit dog-like behaviours and other zoomorphic characteristics and that further research is required in order to better understand these differences. ©2008 IEEE.</p
Additional file 1: of Are urgent care centers a viable venue for recruitment in clinical trials?
No full textClinical trial survey. This is the actual survey that was provided to each subject. (DOCX 17 kb
