Transitioning with an Ostomy: The Experience of Patients with Cancer Following Hospital Discharge
The study aim was to describe the lived experience of patients with an ostomy due to cancer following hospital discharge, using a Heideggerian phenomenological lens. Colaizzi’s (1978) process guided a thematic analysis of nine unstructured interviews. The overall essence of patients’ transition expe...
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24291 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3076 |