Exploring patient participation in reducing health-care-related safety risks

17) If yes, do you think this was mainly
due to:
18) Have you been worried about being
given a blood transfusion?
19) Do you trust doctors to make the
transfusion decision?
20) Were you accompanied by a relative
during your hospitalization?
21) If yes, did they help you to
understand the information given on
blood transfusion?
22) Before being discharged from
hospital, did you get an information
sheet concerning transfusion?
a vocabulary
problem (too
complex) – oral
or written form
a problem of
information
format
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
23) If yes, did you keep it? Yes No
IV. Suggestions
24) How would you like to be informed on
blood transfusion?
25) Other suggestions:
26) Do you think it is useful to give
information on transfusion to a wider
public than only transfused patients?
27) Would you like to play a more
significant role in the blood
transfusion process?
28) If yes, at what stage(s) of the blood
transfusion process would you be
prepared to get more involved?
29) Specify how you would be prepared
to get further involved:
30) Other suggestions:
a lack of oral
information to
complement
the written
information
Yes No I don’t know
In writing Orally
Yes No
Yes No
Before
transfusion
by asking
questions of
doctors (e.g.
on risks, etc.)
During
transfusion
by helping
health care
professionals
during the last
compatibility
control before
transfusion
After
transfusion
by reporting
to health care
professionals
any
unexpected
symptom
appearing
after
transfusion
by carrying
out posttransfusion
follow-up
tests 3
months after
transfusion
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