General practitioners' justifications for therapeutic inertia in cardiovascular prevention: an empirically grounded typology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To construct a typology of general practitioners' (GPs) responses regarding their justification of therapeutic inertia in cardiovascular primary prevention for high-risk patients with hypertension.

Design

Empirically grounded construction of typology. Types were defined by attributes derived from the qualitative analysis of GPs' reported reasons for inaction.

Participants

256 GPs randomised in the intervention group of a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Setting

GPs members of 23 French Regional Colleges of Teachers in General Practice, included in the EffectS of a multifaceted intervention on CArdiovascular risk factors in high-risk hyPErtensive patients (ESCAPE) trial.

Data collection and analysis

The database consisted of 2638 written res

SUBMITTER: Lebeau JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4874143 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature