Sharing responsibility: municipal health professionals' approaches to goal setting with older patients with multi-morbidity - a grounded theory study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Recent health policy promoting integrated care emphasizes to increase patients' health, experience of quality of care and reduce care utilization. Thus, health service delivery should be co-produced by health professionals and individual patients with multiple diseases and complex needs. Collaborative goal setting is a new procedure for older patients with multi-morbidity. The aim is to explore municipal health professionals' experiences of collaborative goal setting with patients with multi-morbidity aged 80 and above. METHODS:A qualitative study with a constructivist grounded theory approach. In total twenty-four health professionals from several health care services in four municipalities, participated in four focus group discussions. RESULTS:Health professionals took four ap

SUBMITTER: Oksavik JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7041090 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature