ArticleNursing research and practice2025
Abandoned in No Man's Land: A Qualitative Study on Patient Experiences While Waiting for Elective Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.
Article in Nursing research and practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Coronary artery bypass grafting is the primary treatment for patients with ischemic heart disease and multivessel disease to improve survival, symptoms, and quality of life. However, patients waiting for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery often struggle with advanced age, frailty, and inactivity, leading to anxiety and uncertainty. Psychological distress, pain, and sedentary behavior can worsen their condition. Prehabilitation, combining exercise, education, and support, aims to improve readiness for surgery, but its success depends on understanding patients' perspectives, while this study explores the experiences of patients awaiting coronary artery bypass grafting surgery to contribute insights into the design of future prehabilitation programs. This qualitative study aimed to explore the phenomenon of waiting to have elective coronary artery bypass grafting surgery based on patients' lived experiences. The study used a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach and conducted purposely selected in-depth interviews with one female and nine men the day before surgery. Analysis of the data revealed themes based on experiences of being abandoned in no man's land, balancing between feeling imprisoned and hoping to escape, preparing to fight, and feeling weak and dependent on social support. The phenomena this study uncovered underscore the complexities inherent to the lived experience of waiting for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Understanding and integrating these aspects when planning prehabilitation programs for patients waiting for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery have substantial clinical relevance, particularly for enhancing healthcare practice when developing targeted interventions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.