Patients' experiences with learning a complex medical device for the self-administration of nocturnal home hemodialysis.

Unlabelled: The purpose of this study was to explore patient training experiences related to the self-administration of hemodialysis at home. Researchers used a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and a focus group. The setting was a hospital-based patient education program in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Telemanagement of hypertension: a qualitative assessment of patient and physician preferences.

Background: Prevalence surveys have consistently found that the blood pressure control rate among people with hypertension is less than 25%. Studies of telemedicine as a means of providing care to hypertensive patients have shown that this approach is effective in lowering blood pressure. Major design flaws and high operating costs, however, have hindered its adoption by physicians and patients.

Power is only skin deep: an institutional ethnography of nurse-driven outpatient psoriasis treatment in the era of clinic web sites.

We present an institutional ethnography of hospital-based psoriasis day treatment in the context of evaluating readiness to supplement services and support with a new web site. Through observation, interviews and a critical consideration of documents, forms and other textually-mediated discourses in the day-to-day work of nurses and physicians, we come to understand how the historical gender-determined power structure of nurses and physicians impacts nurses' work. On the one hand, nurses' work can have certain social benefits that would usually be considered untenable in traditional healthcare: nurses as primary decision-makers, nurses as experts in the treatment of disease, physicians as secondary consultants, and patients as co-facilitators in care delivery processes.