"While consumer participation is the focus of 21st century health policy, little is known about this concept from the perspectives of people who require acute hospital services. [...]This project set out to explore older people's perspective of participating in their care. Adopting critical ethnographic method, field work included observation of the inpatient experience. Following discharge home people were interviewed about their experiences including what helped and what hindered participation in their care. Similarly nurses involved in [...] a hospital experience were invited to be involved in individual and focus group discussions aimed at defining how they believed they facilitated people to participate as well as barriers that prevent this style of care." / Doctor of Philosophy
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/257088 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Penney, Wendy . University of Ballarat. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright Wendy Penny |
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