Patient and primary care practitioners' perspectives on consultations for fibromyalgia: a qualitative evidence synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fibromyalgia presents a challenge to both the patients experiencing symptoms and the staff aiming to treat them. This qualitative review aimed to synthesise how patients and practitioners experience primary care consultations, develop a rounded picture of how they perceive each other, the challenges to primary care consultation and how they might be tackled.

Methods

CINAHL, Embase, CENTRAL and Medline were searched from inception to November 2021. Qualitative studies were included if they explored the perspectives and experiences of either fibromyalgia patients or primary care practitioners. Quantitative data, studies not published in English, not set in primary care or that did not distinguish the type of patient or clinician were excluded. Included studies were

SUBMITTER: Byrne A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10540196 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature