Introduction: Pediatric neurosurgery is a subspecialty of medicine that is responsible for diagnosing, managing, and treating neurological disease in children with the use of surgery. Good intraoperative decision-making is critical to ensuring patient safety, yet almost nothing is known about what factors play a role in intraoperative decisions. As such, the purpose of this paper was to explore the factors that influence intraoperative decisions when pediatric neurosurgeons encounter something unexpected or uncertain during surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To explore the relational and emotional components of the surgeon-patient relationship from the perspective of practicing pediatric neurosurgeons in the field.
Materials And Methods: The study utilized the Grounded Theory Method of data collection and analysis. 26 pediatric neurosurgeons from 12 countries were interviewed using video-conferencing technology.
Objective: The objective of this study was to explore approaches to intraoperative decision-making in pediatric neurosurgeons when they encounter unexpected events, uncertainties, or complications while operating on children.
Methods: Twenty-six pediatric neurosurgeons from 12 countries around the world were interviewed using a semistructured interview guide. The grounded theory method of data collection and analysis was used.
Objective: To explore how pediatric neurosurgeons train residents in developing intraoperative decision-making judgement.
Design: This study used the Grounded Theory Method in its study design. In-depth interviews were conducted with pediatric neurosurgeons about their approaches to training residents in intraoperative decision making.
Objective: The purpose of this research was to explore the processes by which pediatric neurosurgeons make intraoperative decisions when they encounter something unexpected or uncertain while they are operating.
Methods: The study used the grounded theory method of data collection and analysis. Twenty-six pediatric neurosurgeons (PNs) from 12 countries were interviewed about the process by which they make intraoperative decisions.
Objective: To explore oncologists, social workers, and nurses' perceptions about the causes of their cancer patient's mental health distress.
Methods: The grounded theory (GT) method of data collection and analysis was used. Sixty-one oncology health care professionals were interviewed about what they perceived to be the causes of mental health distress in their patients.
Background: Oncology nurses have an important role in identifying mental health distress; however, the research to date indicates that oncology nurses often do not accurately detect this distress.
Objectives: The aim of this study is to explore oncology nurses' perspectives on indicators of distress in patients, the strategies they use in identifying these signs of distress, and the barriers they face in recognizing these indicators.
Methods: Twenty oncology nurses were interviewed.
Expressions of anger within the healthcare context are a common occurrence, particularly in clinical situations where patients can experience emotional distress in the face of illness. The purpose of this study was to examine one aspect of this phenomenon by looking at expressions and causes of anger among Israeli cancer patients and their families from the perspective of oncologists who treat them. Twenty-two Israeli oncologists were interviewed from three oncology centers between March 2013 and June 2014.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objectives of this study were to identify how oncologists respond to mental health distress in their patients, what specific strategies they use in treating this distress, and what barriers they report responding to their patients' emotional distress. Twenty-three oncologists at two cancer centers were interviewed. The grounded theory method of data collection and analysis was used.
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators in coping with patient death in the oncology context.
Methods: The grounded theory method was used to collect and analyze the data. Twenty-two oncologists were interviewed between March 2013 and June 2014 from three adult oncology centers.
Objective: The study aimed to explore oncologist's grief symptoms over patient death and to identify why and which losses are particularly challenging when patients die.
Methods: The grounded theory method was used to collect and analyze the data. Twenty-two oncologists were interviewed between March 2013 and June 2014 from three adult oncology centers in the north, center, and south of Israel.
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