Table 1 Themes and subthemes related to patients’ escape
From: The reasons why patients abscond from public hospitals in southeastern Iran: a qualitative study
Economic factors | Lack of insurance coverage |
Lack of proper and complete insurance coverage | |
Inability to pay costs | |
Illegal foreigner patients | |
Patients’ social and behavioral factors | Addiction |
Suicide and illegitimate pregnancies | |
Free hospital services misconception | |
Nonsupportive families | |
Mental and psychological problems of patients | |
Hospital-related factors | The horizontal building structure of hospitals and insufficient supervision |
Not training and informing patients | |
Absence of an established process for pursuing a patient escape | |
Patients’ dissatisfaction with hospitals | |
Difficulties in the discharge process of the patients |