Skip to main content

Table 2 Characteristics of the ten care-planning meetings and the patients

From: Games of uncertainty: the participation of older patients with multimorbidity in care planning meetings – a qualitative study

Patient’s gender, age

Patient’s main health problem, number of diagnoses, and ward

Participants in the care-planning meeting

P#1

Female, 86 years

Fractured arm. > 2 diagnoses.

Start of stay at rehabilitation/intermediate care unit, city municipality.

Patient and a nurse.

P#2

Female, 96 years

Chest pains and abdominal pain. > 4 diagnoses.

Start of stay at rehabilitation/intermediate care unit, city municipality.

Patient and a nurse.

P#3

Female, 97 years

Fall, fractured neck of femur, with infection. > 5 diagnoses.

End of stay at rehabilitation ward, city municipality.

Patient, case manager from office handling allocation of services, physiotherapist, nurse, home care nurse, and daughter. Three nursing students observed the meeting.

P#4

Female, 98 years

Several falls assumed to be caused by orthostatic hypotension. > 2 diagnoses.

End of stay at rehabilitation ward, city municipality.

Patient, case manager from office handling allocation of services, nurse at the ward, home care nurse, daughter, and adult granddaughter.

P#5

Female, 62 years

Pneumonia. > 5 diseases.

Middle of stay at intermediate care unit, city municipality.

Patient, husband, case manager from office handling allocation of services, and nurse from the ward. One nursing student observed the meeting.

P#6

Female, 91 years

Weakened by cumulative effect of multiple conditions. > 5 diagnoses.

Middle of stay at rehabilitation ward, city municipality.

Patient, case manager from office handling allocation of services, home care nurse, and ward nurse. Daughter and two sons.

P#7

Male,

94 years

Functional decline and emerging needs for home care services. > 5 diagnoses.

Meeting at patient’s home before short-term stay at nursing home, rural municipality.

Patient, wife, and nurse in home care services.

P#8

Female, 96 years

Syncope. > 2 diagnoses.

Meeting at patient’s home, right after stay in intermediate unit, rural municipality.

Patient and nurse in home care services.

P#9

Female, 86 years

Hip surgery. > 5 diagnoses.

Middle of stay at short-term ward, rural municipality.

The patient did not wish to participate in the meeting.

Four daughters, head nurse at care home, physiotherapist, and nurse.

P#10

Male,

75 years

Fractured neck of femur. > 4 diagnoses.

End of stay at short-time ward, rural municipality.

Patient, head nurse in home care services, physician, physiotherapist, mental health nurse, case manager, daughter, son, and nurse from home care services.