Assessing feasibility and acceptability of study procedures: getting ready for implementation of national stroke guidelines in out-patient health care
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2015
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Palmcrantz, S.
Tistad, M.
Eldh, A.
Holmqvist, L.
Ehrenberg, A.
Tomson, G.
Olsson, C.
Wallin, L.
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BMC Health Services Research, 2015; 15(1):517-1-517-11
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Susanne Palmcrantz, Malin Tistad, Ann Catrine Eldh, Lotta Widén Holmqvist, Anna Ehrenberg, Göran Tomson, Christina B. Olsson and Lars Wallin
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Background: Even though Swedish national guidelines for stroke care (SNGSC) have been accessible for nearly a decade access to stroke rehabilitation in out-patient health care vary considerably. In order to aid future interventions studies for implementation of SNGSC, this study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of study procedures including analysis of the context in out-patient health care settings. Methods: The feasibility and acceptability of recruitment, observations and interviews with managers, staff and patients were assessed, as well as the feasibility of surveying health care records. Results: To identify patients from the the hospitals was feasible but not from out-patient care where a need to relieve clinical staff of the recruitment process was identified. Assessing adherence to guidelines and standardized evaluations of patient outcomes through health care records was found to be feasible and suitable assessment tools to evaluate patient outcome were identified. Interviews were found to be a feasible and acceptable tool to survey the context of the health care setting. Conclusion: In this feasibility study a variety of qualitative and quantitative data collection procedures and measures were tested. The results indicate what can be used as a set of feasible and acceptable data collection procedures and suitable measures for studying implementation of stroke guidelines in an out-patient health care context.
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© 2015 Palmcrantz et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.