A qualitative study conducted between July 2015 and March 2016 interviewed physicians about their decision-making for anticoagulant therapy when discharging patients to hospice care. Jon Furuno led the research, which screened 80 discharges and conducted interviews with 8 physicians. The study purposefully sampled physicians who continued, discontinued, or de-escalated antithrombotic therapy.
Use Cases
- Analyzing physician reasoning patterns based on interview transcripts about anticoagulation decisions
- Studying variation in clinical practice based on the three sampled physician groups (continuation, discontinuation, de-escalation)
- Identifying factors influencing end-of-life care transitions based on the described discharge disposition screening process
Strengths
- Study design includes purposeful sampling of three distinct physician decision groups
- Interview data collected within one week of patient discharge to hospice care
- Screening process identified 27 discharges where an anticoagulation decision was made from 80 total discharges
Limitations
- Interview sample size is limited to 8 physicians
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Semi-structured interviews conducted with physicians identified via discharge disposition data from a Department of Care Management.
- Time Range
- July 2015 to March 2016
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-04 07:10:44; freshness should be verified