Patients’ perception of privacy and confidentiality in the emergency department of a busy obstetric unit

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dc.contributor.authorHartigan, Lucia
dc.contributor.authorCussen, Leanne
dc.contributor.authorMeaney, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorO'Donoghue, Keelin
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-20T12:05:14Z
dc.date.available2019-05-20T12:05:14Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractPrivacy and confidentiality are central components of patient care and are of particular importance in obstetrics and gynaecology, where clinical situations of a sensitive nature regularly occur. The layout of the emergency department (ED) in maternity units is often not conducive to maintaining privacy. Our study aimed to discover if changing the environment could improve patients’ experiences in the ED. We surveyed patients and asked specific questions about their perception of privacy in the ED. We then repeated the survey following renovations to the ED which involved replacing curtained patient areas with walled cubicles. There were 75 pre-renovation surveys and 82 post-renovation surveys completed. Before the renovations took place, only 21% (n = 16) found their privacy to be adequate during their visit to the ED. However this rose to 89% (n = 73) post-renovation. Our study showed that patients’ perception of privacy and confidentiality significantly improved following refurbishment of the ED.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid978en
dc.identifier.citationHartigan, L., Cussen, L., Meaney, S. and O’Donoghue, K., 2018. Patients’ perception of privacy and confidentiality in the emergency department of a busy obstetric unit. BMC health services research, 18(1), 978 (6pp). DOI: 10.1186/s12913-018-3782-6en
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12913-018-3782-6en
dc.identifier.endpage6en
dc.identifier.issn1472-6963
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleBMC Health Services Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7939
dc.identifier.volume18en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBMC, Springer Natureen
dc.relation.urihttps://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-018-3782-6
dc.rights© 2018 Hartigan et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 (Data)en
dc.subjectEmergency departmenten
dc.subjectPrivacyen
dc.subjectConfidentialityen
dc.subjectMaternity uniten
dc.subjectPregnancy lossen
dc.titlePatients’ perception of privacy and confidentiality in the emergency department of a busy obstetric uniten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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