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“They Are Talking About Me, but Not with Me”: A Focus Group Study to Explore the Patient Perspective on Interprofessional Team Meetings in Primary Care

BACKGROUND: The number of people with multiple chronic conditions receiving primary care services is growing. To deal with their increasingly complex health care demands, professionals from different disciplines need to collaborate. Interprofessional team (IPT) meetings are becoming more popular. Se...

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Autores principales: van Dongen, Jerôme Jean Jacques, de Wit, Maarten, Smeets, Hester Wilhelmina Henrica, Stoffers, Esther, van Bokhoven, Marloes Amantia, Daniëls, Ramon
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5534197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28110379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40271-017-0214-3
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author van Dongen, Jerôme Jean Jacques
de Wit, Maarten
Smeets, Hester Wilhelmina Henrica
Stoffers, Esther
van Bokhoven, Marloes Amantia
Daniëls, Ramon
author_facet van Dongen, Jerôme Jean Jacques
de Wit, Maarten
Smeets, Hester Wilhelmina Henrica
Stoffers, Esther
van Bokhoven, Marloes Amantia
Daniëls, Ramon
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description BACKGROUND: The number of people with multiple chronic conditions receiving primary care services is growing. To deal with their increasingly complex health care demands, professionals from different disciplines need to collaborate. Interprofessional team (IPT) meetings are becoming more popular. Several studies describe important factors related to conducting IPT meetings, mostly from a professional perspective. However, in the light of patient-centeredness, it is valuable to also explore the patients’ perspective. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to explore the patients’ perspectives regarding IPT meetings in primary care. METHODS: A qualitative study with a focus group design was conducted in the Netherlands. Two focus group meetings took place, for which the same patients were invited. The participants, chronically ill patients with experience on interprofessional collaboration, were recruited through the regional patient association. Participants discussed viewpoints, expectations, and concerns regarding IPT meetings in two rounds, using a focus group protocol and selected video-taped vignettes of team meetings. The first meeting focused on conceptualization and identification of themes related to IPT meetings that are important to patients. The second meeting aimed to gain more in-depth knowledge and understanding of the priorities. Discussions were audio-taped and transcribed verbatim, and analyzed by means of content analysis. RESULTS: The focus group meetings included seven patients. Findings were divided into six key categories, capturing the factors that patients found important regarding IPT meetings: (1) putting the patient at the center, (2) opportunities for patients to participate, (3) appropriate team composition, (4) structured approach, (5) respectful communication, and (6) informing the patient about meeting outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Patients identified different elements regarding IPT meetings that are important from their perspective. They emphasized the right of patients or their representatives to take part in IPT meetings. Results of this study can be used to develop tools and programs to improve interprofessional collaboration. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s40271-017-0214-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-55341972017-08-14 “They Are Talking About Me, but Not with Me”: A Focus Group Study to Explore the Patient Perspective on Interprofessional Team Meetings in Primary Care van Dongen, Jerôme Jean Jacques de Wit, Maarten Smeets, Hester Wilhelmina Henrica Stoffers, Esther van Bokhoven, Marloes Amantia Daniëls, Ramon Patient Original Research Article BACKGROUND: The number of people with multiple chronic conditions receiving primary care services is growing. To deal with their increasingly complex health care demands, professionals from different disciplines need to collaborate. Interprofessional team (IPT) meetings are becoming more popular. Several studies describe important factors related to conducting IPT meetings, mostly from a professional perspective. However, in the light of patient-centeredness, it is valuable to also explore the patients’ perspective. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to explore the patients’ perspectives regarding IPT meetings in primary care. METHODS: A qualitative study with a focus group design was conducted in the Netherlands. Two focus group meetings took place, for which the same patients were invited. The participants, chronically ill patients with experience on interprofessional collaboration, were recruited through the regional patient association. Participants discussed viewpoints, expectations, and concerns regarding IPT meetings in two rounds, using a focus group protocol and selected video-taped vignettes of team meetings. The first meeting focused on conceptualization and identification of themes related to IPT meetings that are important to patients. The second meeting aimed to gain more in-depth knowledge and understanding of the priorities. Discussions were audio-taped and transcribed verbatim, and analyzed by means of content analysis. RESULTS: The focus group meetings included seven patients. Findings were divided into six key categories, capturing the factors that patients found important regarding IPT meetings: (1) putting the patient at the center, (2) opportunities for patients to participate, (3) appropriate team composition, (4) structured approach, (5) respectful communication, and (6) informing the patient about meeting outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Patients identified different elements regarding IPT meetings that are important from their perspective. They emphasized the right of patients or their representatives to take part in IPT meetings. Results of this study can be used to develop tools and programs to improve interprofessional collaboration. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s40271-017-0214-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer International Publishing 2017-01-21 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5534197/ /pubmed/28110379 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40271-017-0214-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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van Dongen, Jerôme Jean Jacques
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Smeets, Hester Wilhelmina Henrica
Stoffers, Esther
van Bokhoven, Marloes Amantia
Daniëls, Ramon
“They Are Talking About Me, but Not with Me”: A Focus Group Study to Explore the Patient Perspective on Interprofessional Team Meetings in Primary Care
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title_sort “they are talking about me, but not with me”: a focus group study to explore the patient perspective on interprofessional team meetings in primary care
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5534197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28110379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40271-017-0214-3
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