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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

Patients' Perspectives on Determinants Avoidable Hospitalizations: Development and Validation of a Questionnaire.

João Sarmento, Margarida Siopa, Rodrigo Feteira-Santos, Sílvia Lopes, Sónia Dias, António Sousa Guerreiro, António Panarra, Paula Nascimento, Afonso Rodrigues, Ana Catarina Rodrigues and 2 more

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12 authors.

João SarmentoPublic Health Research Center, NOVA National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1600-560 Lisboa, Portugal.
Margarida SiopaNOVA National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1600-560 Lisboa, Portugal.
Rodrigo Feteira-SantosInstituto de Saúde Ambiental, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-5780-2288
Sílvia LopesPublic Health Research Center, NOVA National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1600-560 Lisboa, Portugal.
Sónia DiasPublic Health Research Center, NOVA National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1600-560 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-5085-0685
António Sousa GuerreiroServiço de Medicina 4, Hospital de Santa Marta, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
António PanarraServiço de Medicina 7.2, Hospital Curry Cabral, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, 1050-099 Lisboa, Portugal.
Paula NascimentoServiço de Medicina 4, Hospital de Santa Marta, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
Afonso RodriguesServiço de Medicina 4, Hospital de Santa Marta, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
Ana Catarina RodriguesServiço de Medicina 7.2, Hospital Curry Cabral, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, 1050-099 Lisboa, Portugal.
João Victor RochaPublic Health Research Center, NOVA National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1600-560 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-8660-490X
Rui SantanaPublic Health Research Center, NOVA National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1600-560 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-1370-3242

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) can be avoided through effective care in the ambulatory setting. Patients are the most qualified individuals to express the social and individual contexts of their own experience. Thus, understanding why potentially preventable hospitalizations occur is important to develop patient-centred policies or interventions that may reduce them. This study aims to develop and validate a questionnaire to capture the patients' perspective on the causes of the hospitalizations for ACSC. The development of a new questionnaire involved four phases: a literature review, face validity, pre-test, and validation. We conducted a three-step face validity verification to confirm the relevance of the identified determinants and to collect determinants not previously identified by interviewing healthcare providers, representatives of patients' associations, and patients. Determinants were identified through the literature review predominantly in the "Healthcare Access", "Disease self-management", and "Social Support" domains. The validated resulting questionnaire comprises 25 questions, distributed by two dimensions (individual/contextual) covering seven domains and 20 determinants of ACSC hospitalization. Currently, there are no validated instruments as comprehensive and easy to use as the one described in this paper. This questionnaire should provide a base for further language/context validations.

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Ambulatory CareHospitalizationHumansSurveys and Questionnairesambulatory care sensitive conditionsdeterminantspatients’ perspective

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