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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2014

The Role of Preference on Outcomes of People Receiving Evidence-Informed Community Wound Care in Their Home or in a Nurse-Clinic Setting: A Cohort Study (n = 230).

Margaret B Harrison, Elizabeth G VanDenKerkhof, Wilma M Hopman, Meg E Carley

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Margaret B HarrisonSchool of Nursing, Queen's University, 92 Barrie Street, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. margaret.b.harrison@queensu.ca.
Elizabeth G VanDenKerkhofSchool of Nursing, Queen's University, 92 Barrie Street, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. ev5@Queensu.ca.
Wilma M HopmanClinical Research Centre, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON K7L 2V7, Canada. hopmanw@KGH.KARI.NET.
Meg E CarleySchool of Nursing, Queen's University, 92 Barrie Street, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada. meg.carley@queensu.ca.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study followed a cohort of community-dwelling individuals receiving wound-care in a large urban-rural region. During a randomized control trial (RCT) evaluating outcomes of receiving care in a nurse-clinic or at home, many approached were willing to participate if they could choose their location of care. This provided a unique opportunity to enroll them as a "choice" cohort, following them in the same manner as the trial participants but allowing them to select their setting of care. The objective was to investigate the role of preference and location of care on care outcomes, including satisfaction with care, healing, health-related quality of life (HRQL), pain, and resource use. This is a secondary analysis of a prospective cohort of 126 individuals enrolled in an RCT to receive care at home or in a nurse-clinic (Allocated group), and an additional 104 who received care at home or in a nurse-clinic based on their preference (Choice group). Mobile individuals with a leg ulcer of venous or mixed venous etiology, referred for community leg ulcer care, were eligible. Specially-trained nurses provided care to both groups using an evidence-informed protocol. Baseline data included socio-demographic, circumstance-of-living and a detailed wound assessment. Mean age of the cohort was 68 years. Satisfaction, healing, recurrence, pain, HRQL, and resource utilization did not differ between groups. If available, individuals should have an option of care venue given almost half of those approached indicated a clear preference for clinic or home. With outcomes being similar, health care planners and decision-makers, as well as individuals and their families, can feel confident that the setting of care will not impact the outcomes. However, larger studies in other contexts are needed to explore the interaction between choice and setting.

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community clinicscommunity wound-carehomecareleg ulcerspatient preference

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PMID27429284
PMCPMC4934598
OpenAlexW2042742894

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