International Journal of General Medicine (Aug 2023)
Clinical Significance of Action Research-Based Seamless Care to Improve Imaging Efficiency and Patients’ Cognition, and Alleviate Patient Anxiety
Abstract
Haiqin Zhang,1 Hui Miao,1 Donglan Yue,1 Jue Xia2 1Medical Imaging Department, Hai’an People’s Hospital, Jiangsu, 226600, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Radiology, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Jiangsu, 2l4023, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Jue Xia, Department of Radiology, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Wuxi People’s Hospital, 299 Qingyang Road, Jiangsu, 2l4023, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-13914139822, Email [email protected]: The present study was undertaken to assess the clinical significance of action research-based seamless care to improve imaging efficiency and alleviate patient anxiety.Methods: A total of eighty patients who underwent imaging examinations in our hospital between May 2019 and November 2020 were recruited for this study. The patients were randomly assigned to two groups: the control group receiving routine care and the observation group receiving seamless care based on action research. The random assignment was conducted using a simple random sampling technique, ensuring an equal allocation of participants to each group at a 1:1 ratio, resulting in 40 cases in each group. Outcome measures included imaging examination duration, mean nursing duration, examination cognition, and negative emotion scores.Results: Seamless care provided shorter imaging examination duration and nursing duration, and better ensured uneventful examinations than routine care (P< 0.05). Patients given seamless care exhibited higher examination cognition versus those receiving routine care (P< 0.05). Seamless care offered more mitigation of negative emotions for patients than routine care (P< 0.05).Conclusion: Action research-based seamless care effectively improves imaging efficiency and patients’ awareness of imaging examinations and contributes to alleviating patients’ adverse events.Keywords: action research, seamless care, imaging, anxiety
