Authors
EAF Dancet, TM D'Hooghe, W Sermeus, I Van Empel, H Strohmer, Christine Wyns, D Santa-Cruz, LG Nardo, D Kovatchki, L Vanlangenakker, J Garcia-Velasco, B Mulugeta, WLDM Nelen, JAM Kremer
Publication date
2012/6/1
Journal
Human Reproduction
Volume
27
Issue
6
Pages
1702-1711
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
BACKGROUND
International patient centredness concepts were suggested but never conceptualized from the patients' perspective. Previously, a literature review and a monolingual qualitative study defined ‘patient-centred infertility care’ (PCIC). The present study aimed to test whether patients from across Europe value the same aspects of infertility care.
METHODS
An international multilingual focus group (FG) study with 48 European patients from fertility clinics in Austria, Spain, the UK and Belgium, with deductive content analysis.
RESULTS
All specific care aspects important to participants from all countries could be allocated to the 10 dimensions of PCIC, each discussed in every FG, including: ‘information provision’, ‘attitude of and relationship with staff’, ‘competence of clinic and staff’, ‘communication’, ‘patient involvement and privacy’, ‘emotional …
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