Being well? A meta-ethnography of older patients and their relatives’ descriptions of suffering and well-being in the transition from hospital to home

Table 1 PEO elements and keywords

Population	Exposure	Outcome	Study type
older patient	discharge	experience	phenomenolog*
older people	hospital discharge	well-being	hermeneutic*
elderly	early discharge	well being	lifeworld
older adult*	discharge process	wellbeing
relative*	transition	suffering
partner	care transition	perspective*
spouse	hospital to home	view*
next of kin	hospital-to-home transition	need*
next-of-kin		description*
significant other
informal caregiver

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