Abstract
Background Pain is the most frequent complication of cancer and an important reason for out-of-hours (OOH) primary care contacts by patients with established cancer. Existing quantitative data give little insight into the reason for these contacts. Exploring such encounters of care could highlight ways to improve anticipatory cancer care and communication between daytime and OOH primary care services.
Aim To explore the experiences, views, and opinions of patients and their caregivers who have used OOH primary care for help with managing cancer pain.
Design and setting A semi-structured interview study with patients and caregivers who have utilised an OOH primary care service in Grampian, Scotland, because of pain related to cancer.
Method Semi-structured interviews with 11 patients and four caregivers (n = 15), transcribed verbatim and analysed using framework analysis and, to a lesser extent, inductive thematic analysis.
Aim To explore the experiences, views, and opinions of patients and their caregivers who have used OOH primary care for help with managing cancer pain.
Design and setting A semi-structured interview study with patients and caregivers who have utilised an OOH primary care service in Grampian, Scotland, because of pain related to cancer.
Method Semi-structured interviews with 11 patients and four caregivers (n = 15), transcribed verbatim and analysed using framework analysis and, to a lesser extent, inductive thematic analysis.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | e754-e760 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | The British Journal of General Practice |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 640 |
| Early online date | 26 Oct 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2015 |
Bibliographical note
FundingRosalind Adam completed this work while undertaking a clinical academic fellowship funded by NHS Education for Scotland. No additional funding was received.
Keywords
- General Practice
- Neoplasm
- Pain
Access to Document
- Rosalind OOH interviews Adam et al BJGP
This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/