Cardiologists' perceptions on multidisciplinary collaboration in heart failure care - a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiologists play a key role in multidisciplinary care by guiding heart failure (HF) management in the hospital and in the community. Regional implementation of multidisciplinary health care interventions depends on how they perceive collaboration with other health care disciplines, yet research on this topic is limited. This study aimed to explore the views and opinions of cardiologists on multidisciplinary collaboration in HF care.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative study based on face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 11 Belgian cardiologists between September 2019 and February 2020. We used the Qualitative Analysis Guide of Leuven (QUAGOL) method as guidance for data analysis until data saturation was reached.

Results

Cardiologists consider the g

SUBMITTER: Raat W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7901167 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature