Engaging primary care physicians in system change - an interpretive qualitative study in a remote and rural health region in Northern British Columbia, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe how physicians were engaged in primary healthcare system change in a remote and rural Canadian health authority.

Design

A qualitative interpretive study based on a hermeneutic approach.

Methods

34 transcribed in-depth interviews with physicians and administrators relevant to physician engagement were purposively sampled from a larger data set of 239 interviews gathered over a 3-year period from seven communities engaged in primary healthcare transformation. Interviews were coded and analysed interpretively to develop common themes.

Setting

This research is part of a larger study, Partnering for Change I, which investigated the efforts of Northern Health, a rural regional health authority in British Columbia, to transform its healthcare sy

SUBMITTER: Snadden D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6549631 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature