Clinicians' Perspective on Implementing Virtual Hospital Care for Low Back Pain: Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alternate "hospital avoidance" models of care are required to manage the increasing demand for acute inpatient beds. There is currently a knowledge gap regarding the perspectives of hospital clinicians on barriers and facilitators to a transition to virtual care for low back pain. We plan to implement a virtual hospital model of care called "Back@Home" and use qualitative interviews with stakeholders to develop and refine the model.

Objective

We aim to explore clinicians' perspectives on a virtual hospital model of care for back pain (Back@Home) and identify barriers to and enablers of successful implementation of this model of care.

Methods

We conducted semistructured interviews with 19 purposively sampled clinicians involved in the delivery of acute back

SUBMITTER: Melman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10698644 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature