Development and Preliminary Testing of a Framework to Evaluate Patients' Experiences of the Fundamentals of Care: A Secondary Analysis of Three Stroke Survivor Narratives

Table 3

Number of care episodes describing interactions with staff identified in text coded according to the fundamentals of care template: three cases.

Fundamentals of care (FOC)	Case A 𝑛=18 (out of 𝑛=36)	Case B 𝑛=25 (out of 𝑛=39)	Case C 𝑛=26 (out of 𝑛=31)
Safety, prevention, and medication	1 (6)	2 (5)	1 (2)
Communication and education	2 (8)	13 (15)	6 (6)
Respiration	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (1)
Eating and drinking	2 (4)	3 (7)	5 (7)
Elimination	3 (5)	2 (4)	2 (2)
Personal cleansing and dressing	1 (1)	2 (3)	3 (3)
Temperature control	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (1)
Comfort (including pain management)	0 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Dignity	0 (1)	1 (1)	6 (6)
Respecting choice	0 (0)	1 (1)	1 (1)
Mobility	8 (9)	1 (1)	2 (2)
Privacy	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Rest and sleep	1 (1)	0 (2)	0 (0)
Expressing sexuality	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)

Number in parentheses shows the total number of quotations for each fundamental of care, for each case.