The health system strengthening and support needs described by the study participants during individual and group interviews exemplify the range of challenges that can pose barriers to adopting comprehensive ambulatory-based management of TB as recommended by the WHO.
Our approach is based on the "jobs to be done" methodology for capturing customer needs, described by professor Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School and co-author Michael Raynor in the book The Innovator's Solution.
These approaches tally with the supportive care needs described by men with prostate cancer in qualitative studies 46, 47.
Our survey data allow capacity-building strategies to be designed to meet particular needs described by the members themselves.
The needs described by the next of kin are captured in three subcategories named General deterioration, Medical conditions and acute illness and Deterioration when death approaches.
In consideration of the palliative care needs of those with severe dementia, Hughes [ 44] compares the psychological needs described by Kitwood [ 8] with the elements of palliative care described by the World Health Organisation [ 45] and Addington-Hall [ 46].
Information needs described by women in our sample were surgery-specific (e.g., differences in types and complications associated with implants were relevant to reconstruction and augmentation but not breast reduction patients).
Most Chinese caregivers were unable to gain information to meet their ongoing learning needs as described by a caregiver: I want to know why she is so verbal all day and how to reduce the behavior.
It seems that some preoccupations of the nurses such as salary, income and job insecurity have caused them to remain in the first and second category of basic needs as described by Maslow, so that they lack the required motivation and ability for professional cooperation and progress.
A pico-count flow-through detector where no dispersion correction is needed was described by Votaw and Shulman [16] and is operating in coincidence detection mode of the two 511-keV gamma-ray photons with BGO detectors.
