The patient’s experience of participation when admitted for elective surgical procedures: an interview study

Figures & data

Table I. Examples of textual units, condensed textual units and codes.

Textual unit	Condensed textual unit	Code
What if I decide and they listen to me and it goes wrong, then it’s my own fault (laughter). No, in all seriousness, I think you know what I mean.	What if I decide and it goes wrong? Then it’s my own fault.	Fear of making the wrong decision
You want to hear a lot about that, if there was anything during the surgery that had like happened. Because it took a while before you got the answer that everything went well. Even though they said that “nah, I don’t think there was anything”, but that was just someone at the recovery room, but you don’t know that.	You want to hear if anything had happened during the surgery, it took a while before you got an answer that everything went well.	Need sanction that the surgery went well

Table II. Patient demographics (N = 14).

Variables
Aggregated patient demographics
Gender, n (%)
Female			7 (50.0)
Male			7 (50.0)
Age, median years (min-max)			60.5 (21–81)
Elective admissions, n (%)			14 (100)
Type of surgery, n (%)
Recontructive plastic (RP)			7 (50.0)
Thoracic (T)			7 (50.0)
In-hospital stay at interview, median days (min-max)			4 (3–21)
Individual patient demographics
Patient number	Gender	Age	Number of in-hospital days at interview	Type of surgery
1	Male	65	4	T
2	Male	81	21	RP
3	Male	78	5	T
4	Male	57	3	RP
5	Female	78	5	T
6	Female	51	4	RP
7	Male	63	4	T
8	Female	43	5	RP
9	Female	73	4	T
10	Female	52	4	RP
11	Female	66	5	T
12	Female	42	4	RP
13	Male	21	5	T
14	Male	58	4	RP

Figure 1. The patient’s experience of participation in their care when admitted for elective surgical procedures, described with one theme, three categories and nine sub-categories.

Data availability statement

The ethical approval for the present study does not allow us to share data.