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- Title
'It is just part of life': patient perspectives and experiences of diagnostic imaging referrals.
- Authors
Makanjee, Chandra Rekha; Xu, Deon; Sarswat, Drishti; Bergh, Anne-Marie
- Abstract
Referral for a medical imaging examination is an integral part of the medical consultation; however, not much is known about patients' experience of these referrals. The life-world experiences and perspectives of patients as 'persons' referred for an imaging investigation are explored through the lens of person-centred and whole-person care. Individual interviews were conducted with 22 patients referred for an imaging investigation. The findings were interpreted in terms of the journey of a patient; that is, the processes the patient undergoes as a person in the course of a referral for a diagnostic imaging investigation as part of the disease and its treatment. Participants' life and health journeys are described in terms of three themes: (1) events leading to an imaging examination; (2) the imaging referral experience embedded within the medical encounter; and (3) the integration of the findings of the imaging examination into their everyday life. Health practitioners should be mindful of the complexity of medical consultations that include a referral for an imaging investigation. Not much is known about patients' experience of a referral for a medical imaging examination. This study explores the experiences and perspectives of patients referred for an imaging investigation in terms of person-centred and whole-person care and discusses how they are important for patients' health and wellbeing.
- Subjects
COMPUTED tomography; DIAGNOSTIC imaging; EXPERIENCE; INTERVIEWING; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; MEDICAL referrals; RESEARCH; ULTRASONIC imaging; X-rays; QUALITATIVE research; THEMATIC analysis; PATIENT-centered care; PATIENTS' attitudes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 6, p507
- ISSN
1448-7527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1071/PY20146