Open AccessCritical issues in the relationships between patient relatives and hospital staff: qualitative research based on focus group
Author(s) -
Beatrice Cecchini,
Valeria Del Longo,
Emanuela Grandesso,
Alessandro Gamba,
Andrea Semplicini
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
italian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1877-9352
pISSN - 1877-9344
DOI - 10.4081/itjm.2014.99
Subject(s) - medicine , focus group , affect (linguistics) , qualitative research , family medicine , nursing , social science , linguistics , philosophy , marketing , sociology , business
In Italy the number of elderly patients is increasing and often a family member, also called primary caregiver (CG), assists them. The aim of this study is to describe the peculiar relationships between the family primary CG and the hospital staff, when an elderly patient is admitted to hospital, to demonstrate how this may affect his/her clinical management during the hospital stay and formulate new research projects and organizational rearrangements