Barriers and facilitators to implement shared decision making in multidisciplinary sciatica care: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Dutch multidisciplinary sciatica guideline recommends that the team of professionals involved in sciatica care and the patient together decide on surgical or prolonged conservative treatment (shared decision making [SDM]). Despite this recommendation, SDM is not yet integrated in sciatica care. Existing literature concerning barriers and facilitators to SDM implementation mainly focuses on one discipline only, whereas multidisciplinary care may involve other barriers and facilitators, or make these more complex for both professionals and patients. Therefore, this qualitative study aims to identify barriers and facilitators perceived by patients and professionals for SDM implementation in multidisciplinary sciatica care.

Methods

We conducted 40 semi-structured

SUBMITTER: Hofstede SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3765956 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature