caa a22 4500 397519206 CHVBK 20180308164628.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199512 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/intqhc/7.4.355 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/intqhc/7.4.355 What is Important in Psychiatric Outpatient Care? Quality of Care from the Patient's Perspective [Elektronische Daten] [TOMMY BJÖRKMAN, LARS HANSSON, BENGT SVENSSON, INGRID BERGLUND] The development of quality assurance programmes for psychiatric care has increased the interest in quality of care and accountability from the patient's perspective. The aims of this study were threefold. First, to map descriptive characteristics of ideal outpatient psychiatric care through open-ended patient interviews, using a sample of 94 psychiatric outpatients, second, to have another sample of 84 outpatients rank the importance of 57 treatment characteristics extracted from the qualitative analysis of the interviews, and third to make comparisons with a previously performed investigation on quality of care of psychiatric inpatients. Results of the content analysis showed that characteristics of ideal outpatient treatment could be classified in eight content categories: accessibility of care, treatment content, staff-patient relationship, continuity of care, staff's professionalism, patient information/co-influence, treatment environment and cost of care. Results from the patients' rating of the importance of treatment characteristics showed that patients put the highest emphasis on staff's empathetic qualities in being interested, understanding, listening and respecting patients. Comparisons with the previously studied inpatient sample, showed great similarities in what was considered important to reach a satisfactory care situation. It is concluded that in order to secure content validity of investigations of the quality of psychiatric care from the patient's perspective, effort should be put into including the areas of staff-patient relationship and patient information and co-influence. © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Articles nationallicence Quality of care nationallicence psychiatric care nationallicence patient satisfaction nationallicence BJÖRKMAN TOMMY Department of Nursing, College for the Health Professions Lund/Helsingborg, Sweden aut HANSSON LARS Department of Nursing, College for the Health Professions Lund/Helsingborg, Sweden aut SVENSSON BENGT Department of Nursing, College for the Health Professions Lund/Helsingborg, Sweden aut BERGLUND INGRID Department of Nursing, College for the Health Professions Lund/Helsingborg, Sweden aut International Journal for Quality in Health Care Oxford University Press 7/4(1995-12), 355-362 1353-4505 7:4<355 1995 7 intqhc https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/7.4.355 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/7.4.355 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- BJÖRKMAN TOMMY Department of Nursing, College for the Health Professions Lund/Helsingborg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- HANSSON LARS Department of Nursing, College for the Health Professions Lund/Helsingborg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- SVENSSON BENGT Department of Nursing, College for the Health Professions Lund/Helsingborg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- BERGLUND INGRID Department of Nursing, College for the Health Professions Lund/Helsingborg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal for Quality in Health Care Oxford University Press 7/4(1995-12), 355-362 1353-4505 7:4<355 1995 7 intqhc Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford