‘Am I really ready to go home?’: a qualitative study of patients’ experience of early discharge following an enhanced recovery programme for liver resection surgery

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3447-3454

  Vandrevala, T ^a   Senior, V ^b   Spring, L ^c   Kelliher, L ^c   Jones, C ^c  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Business Librarians Association   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discharge from hospital; Enhanced recovery programmes; Liver cancer; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENHANCED RECOVERY PROGRAMME; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOPE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; LIVER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; TRENDS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84961208417     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-016-3158-6     Document Type: Article

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