Factors affecting primary care physician decision-making for patients with complex multimorbidity: a qualitative interview study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity) and additional psychosocial complexity are at higher risk of adverse outcomes. Establishing treatment or care plans for these patients must account for their disease interactions, finite self-management abilities, and even conflicting treatment recommendations from clinical practice guidelines. Despite existing insight into how primary care physicians (PCPs) approach care decisions for their patients in general, less is known about how PCPs make care planning decisions for more complex populations particularly within a medical home setting. We therefore sought to describe factors affecting physician decision-making when care planning for complex patients with multimorbidity within the team-based, patient-centered

SUBMITTER: Schuttner L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8817776 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature