Results of healthcare relationships in terms of therapy, activities resumed, pathway of care and adherence, their correlation to the narrative style, and the type of relationship established
| “Core” parallel charts | “Contingent” parallel charts | “Moral” parallel charts | |||||||
| Easy | Difficult | Evolved | Easy | Difficult | Evolved | Easy | Difficult | Evolved | |
| Physicians' impression on how patients lived the therapy | |||||||||
| Negatively | 4% | 100% | 7% | 7% | 75% | 9% | 0% | 61% | 17% |
| “A disaster, a bigger challenge for her, a defeat” | |||||||||
| Positively | 64% | 0% | 54% | 58% | 25% | 74% | 60% | 39% | 61% |
| “I think the patient experienced care in an authentic way, knowing that there are not many other possibilities that effective … so, all in all, he was grateful to the scientific world” | |||||||||
| “But when he realised its immediate effectiveness and ease, he strongly adhered to the therapy” | |||||||||
| As a liberation | 32% | 0% | 39% | 35% | 0% | 17% | 40% | 0% | 22% |
| “I was glad that an elderly widow had come back to plan a six-month summer vacation in advance. The therapy has restored her confidence” | |||||||||
| “In my opinion, the patient has experienced cure as a new opportunity to live his life” | |||||||||
| Resumption of the activities interrupted due to disease | |||||||||
| No | 8% | 33% | 2% | 7% | 36% | 4% | 15% | 56% | 7% |
| “I knew he had abandoned the therapy I had prescribed because the results were probably not the expected ones” | |||||||||
| Yes | 47% | 33% | 44% | 39% | 29% | 64% | 38% | 6% | 46% |
| “Thanks to the new therapy, he regained his desire to live, made of small but important things: meeting friends, talking to the newsagent, sometimes playing bowls, feeling alive again” | |||||||||
| “Working continuously, without frequent breaks, he can meet his deadlines and can continue to play soccer” | |||||||||
| Yes, with some limitations | 45% | 33% | 53% | 54% | 36% | 32% | 46% | 39% | 47% |
| “He is a demanding person. He cannot do things that maybe other people of his age without COPD could do. But let's not let it go … do not ever say it” | |||||||||
| Thinking back to the pathway of care, I think … | |||||||||
| It was difficult | 1% | 33% | 16% | 0% | 14% | 5% | 14% | 40% | 8% |
| “The path has been slower and fuller of obstacles than I had expected at the beginning” | |||||||||
| Something could be improved | 15% | 33% | 11% | 22% | 36% | 18% | 57% | 25% | 31% |
| “I think it's also necessary to have a psychological support for family members” | |||||||||
| I did my best | 48% | 0% | 27% | 52% | 36% | 27% | 14% | 15% | 46% |
| “I think the path of the patient is very satisfactory for the results obtained, which of course must be maintained” | |||||||||
| Listening to the patient is the | 35% | 33% | 46% | 26% | 14% | 50% | 14% | 20% | 15% |
| key for success | |||||||||
| “Understanding her biggest concern and sharing it with her motivated the patient to follow the cure prescribed, also ensuring a continued adherence” | |||||||||
| Adherence | |||||||||
| Yes | 100% | 67% | 97% | 98% | 64% | 100% | 100% | 44% | 100% |
COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.