Facilitators and barriers in general practitioners' choice to work in primary care units in Austria: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent reforms in Austria have focused on establishing team-based care within multiprofessional primary care units, to enhance amongst others, the work attractiveness of general practice. Nearly 75% of qualified general practitioners are not working as contracted physicians with the social health insurance. This study aims to explore the facilitators of and barriers to non-contracted general practitioners to work in a primary care unit.

Methods

We conducted twelve semi-structured, problem-centered interviews among purposively sampled non-contracted general practitioners. To extract categories of facilitators and barriers for working in a primary care unit, transcribed interviews were inductively coded using qualitative content analysis. Subcategories were grouped

SUBMITTER: Burgmann S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10181885 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature