Impact of multimorbidity on healthcare professional task shifting potential in patients with type 2 diabetes in primary care: a French cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the transferability of processes of care from general practitioners (GPs) to allied healthcare professionals and the determinants of such transferability.

Design

French national cross-sectional multicentre study SETTING: 128 family practices providing supervised training for residents in general practice.

Participants

All patients consulting with their GP over a total number of 20 days (ie, 1 day a week from December 2011 to April 2012). Encounters where type 2 diabetes was one of the managed health problems were selected for analysis.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Processes that were associated with specific health problems were collected by 54 residents. Potential process transferability was the main outcome assessed, as well a

SUBMITTER: Supper I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5719306 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature