Consensus study to define appropriate inaction and inappropriate inertia in the management of patients with hypertension in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To elaborate and validate operational definitions for appropriate inaction and for inappropriate inertia in the management of patients with hypertension in primary care.

Design

A two-step approach was used to reach a definition consensus. First, nominal groups provided practice-based information on the two concepts. Second, a Delphi procedure was used to modify and validate the two definitions created from the nominal groups results.

Participants

14 French practicing general practitioners participated in each of the two nominal groups, held in two different areas in France. For the Delphi procedure, 30 academics, international experts in the field, were contacted; 20 agreed to participate and 19 completed the procedure.

Results

Inappropriate inertia

SUBMITTER: Lebeau JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6067345 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature