Development, successes, and potential pitfalls of multidisciplinary chronic disease management clinics in a family health team: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The creation of Family Health Teams in Ontario was intended to reconfigure primary care services to better meet the needs of an aging population, an increasing proportion of which is affected by frailty and multimorbidity. However, evaluations of family health teams have yielded mixed results.

Methods

We conducted interviews with 22 health professionals affiliated or working with a well-established family health team in Southwest Ontario to understand how it approached the development of interprofessional chronic disease management programs, including successes and areas for improvement.

Results

Qualitative analysis of the transcripts identified two primary themes: [1] Interprofessional team building and [2] Inadvertent creation of silos. Within the first t

SUBMITTER: Brooks L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10280863 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature