Barriers to evidence-based acute stroke care in Ghana: A qualitative study on the perspectives of stroke care professionals

BMJ Open

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Baatiema, Leonard ^a,b   De Graft Aikins, Ama ^a   Sav, Adem ^b   Mnatzaganian, George ^c   Chan, Carina K Y ^b   Somerset, Shawn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Africa; barriers; Developing countries; Evidence based practice; Implementation; Stroke care; Stroke service

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; DENIAL; DIETITIAN; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GHANA; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROLOGIST; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; STROKE PATIENT; TEAMWORK; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; GHANA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STROKE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85018752704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015385     Document Type: Article

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