(Patient 7, observation field notes, Centre B ) Interviewer : Hmm.
(Patient 4, observation field notes, Centre A) Researcher: …how important do you think in your overall picture that the absence of the notes has been…?
(Patient 4, observation field notes, Centre B) The patient informed me that while in hospital, he had received information only through his discharge papers and there had been no mention of the diagnosis to the patient in person.
Cardiology outpatients' appointment at Hospital 2 —arrived at outpatients' clinic and met Mr & Mrs P.5…There were NO NOTES!! (Patient 5, extracts from fieldwork interview and observation field notes, Centre A) Participant: Well I'm sure I would have had a pacemaker fitted earlier.
The patient's wife…said that she had felt better after speaking to the HF nurse…(Patient 4, observation field notes, Centre B) Disclosure and explanation of diagnosis during the course of an unplanned hospital admission was perceived as unhelpful and inadequate by clinicians, patients and carers.
The patient's wife…said that she had felt better after speaking to the HF nurse…(Patient 4, observation field notes, Centre B ) Well it [the term heart failure] has a negative concept to many people, because I think for a lot of patients it's an organ that's failing…therefore a sort of terminal illness… there's a lot of anxiety about that term.
* Editor's note: the Centre for Economic Policy Research (in the UK) is different from and has not relationship to the Center for Economic and Policy Research (in the US), of which the author is a director.
They are supposed to help Bangladesh Bank set up a "Fake Note Analysis Centre", to "improve security features of banknotes and check circulation of fake notes".They are to conduct comprehensive training of Bangladesh's central-bank officials, to help them trace counterfeit currency and prevent its distribution.
Of note, most centres not participating were low-volume centres, so that our data are likely skewed towards management practices that are mostly used in larger-volume centres.
Sarah Rathbone noted: "Wimbledon centre court - pricey good seats are mostly empty, cheap seats at the back are full".
