Qualitative Interview Themes on Kidney Stone Care Delays, 20 Participants

A safety net hospital and academic medical center in the United States provided the setting for this qualitative study. The dataset contains coded themes from semi-structured interviews with 20 adult patients who experienced delays in urological care after an emergency department visit for kidney stones. Author Ibukunoluwa I. Ibrahim published the data on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license, with a last update timestamp of 2026-06-01.

Use Cases

• Analyzing patient-reported barriers to care based on themes of cost and provider skepticism mentioned in the description
• Modeling factors contributing to care delays based on identified patient-intrinsic and extrinsic obstacles
• Informing interventions to reduce disparities based on qualitative insights into socio-economic status and care navigation

Strengths

• Includes demographic details for 20 participants, with a median age of 46 and breakdowns by gender, ethnicity, and language dominance
• Thematic analysis identified specific obstacles like care costs, provider skepticism, and gaps in patient understanding
• Dataset is small (9.5 KB) and likely focused, facilitating quick inspection and analysis

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative modeling
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is from a single hospital setting, which may limit generalizability to other populations

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Semi-structured interviews with 20 patients, transcribed, coded, and analyzed using thematic analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 17:34:11; freshness should be verified

Geography

Likely United States, based on the context of a safety net hospital and academic medical center.