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. 2017 Sep 20;152(9):843–850. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.1088

Table 2. Sources of Interview Participant Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction With Trauma Resuscitation From Semistructured Interviews.

Source Satisfaction
Dissatisfaction
Participants (References), No. Representative Quotations Participants (References), No. Representative Quotations
Total 28 (211) NA 26 (129) NA
Trauma team members 25 (89) “The doctors that I have so far, they’re really nice. They talk to me. Anything I need, they help me. And they let me know they care.” 13 (32) “Honestly, to have so many people kinda like bombard you is kinda scary, especially, I was in a neck brace. So for me not to be able to see my surroundings, it was very, very scary.”
Clinical care 21 (32) “When I got in here, they was right on the button. They started moving me. They stripped me. They checked me, made sure everything was fine. They did a very good job...they checked me from head to toe and made sure everything was all right.” 16 (30) “I remember the nurses cutting up my clothes. Man, I didn’t like that. Because I really, I don’t really have no other clothes as it is.”
Communication 20 (43) “They let me know every time they were gonna do something and what was gonna happen and what my condition was, so I wouldn’t be worried.” 14 (30) “…[T]hey supposed [to] let me know what’s going on. I wasn’t told, I know I’ve been shot and all that, but I wasn’t told that this injury would take this amount to heal or whatever.”
Emotional experience 16 (23) “I could feel it kind of like, it was like, okay, my shirt is gone. I’m in a safe place, and these people are going to just take care of me.” 10 (19) “What they gonna do? What were they talking about? Whether it was serious? …It scared me a little, the possibility.”
Physical experience 9 (11) “I remember, they gave me some pretty heavy-duty painkillers downstairs, and that helped take away some of the pain. I was thankful for that.” 9 (14) “That was the only complaint I had because like just any, they didn’t even have to get me a drink. Just wet my mouth with something. My mouth was so dry, I couldn’t swallow. I couldn’t do anything.”

Abbreviation: NA, not applicable.