E Martín Padilla, P Sarmiento Medina, A Ramírez Jaramillo
OBJECTIVE: To Identify aspects of professional communication that affect the quality of long-term care for patients with chronic illness or disabilities and their families, in the experience of health professionals, as input for the development of an assessment tool. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Descriptive qualitative.The data was processed by performing an interpretative analysis from grounded theory. The participants included 12 health professionals (three doctors, three nurses, three therapists and three psychologists), who work at the Hospital of the Universidad de La Sabana, Chia, and other institutions in Bogota, Colombia,with more than five years experience in programs treating chronic disease or disability in hospital therapeutic contexts...
May 2014: Revista de Calidad Asistencial: Organo de la Sociedad Española de Calidad Asistencial