Among other things, sexual health encompasses access to sexual health information, education and medical care; being informed and empowered regarding pregnancy and family planning; preventing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and accessing appropriate care and treatment; and being able to communicate about sexual health with not only sexual partners but healthcare providers, too.
Women were unaware their care was informed by a care pathway.
In our study, individualized care was informed significantly by the imagination of PSWs.
It is therefore essential that this dimension of nursing care be informed by sound and rigorous research evidence.
Complex interventions, such as those used to improve quality of health care, are informed by principles from health services research, management, psychology and engineering, in addition to medicine.
Rates of ART dropout were taken from Nigerian studies [ 16, 17], dropout rates from condom promotion and pre-ART care were informed by data from elsewhere in Africa, and PrEP dropout was informed by dropout rates in PrEP trials.
Our understanding of quality of care was informed by the WHO's operational definition spanning six dimensions of quality including effective, efficient, accessible, patient-centred, equitable and safe health care [ 25].
While there is debate about what constitutes usual medical care at later stage post TKR, the definition of usual medical care was informed from extensive discussions with patients, physicians, rehabilitation clinicians, and a literature review which all indicate that at two months post TKR the majority of patients no longer undergo rehab despite suboptimal improvement [ 24– 29].
A case study design enabled the capture of data on use of the pathway in the clinical setting, use of multiple methods of data collection and opportunity to study and understand the experiences of clinicians and service users whose care was informed by the pathway.
We developed a theoretical framework of patient and family-centred care that is informed by patient, family, provider and contextual factors and derived from the work of Gillespie et al. [ 38], Mead et al. [ 39] and Stewart [ 40].
