[Patients' perspectives on behavioral and cognitive changes after hospitalization: a 3-month follow-up cohort study using qualitative and quantitative research methods].

  • Arne Zastrow
  • Franziska Seyboth
  • Verena Faude
  • Dorothea Niehoff
  • Wolfgang Herzog
  • Bernd Löwe

Abstract

To describe patients' subjective perspectives on hospitalization at time of admission, to prospectively investigate patients' views on changes actually achieved after discharge, and to identify predictors of subjective changes 3 months after hospitalization.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number2
ISSN1438-3608
Publication statusPublished - 2011
pubmed 21626479