Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Factors Relevant to Ideal Specialty Consultations.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Inpatient subspecialty consultations, a common and expensive practice within inpatient medicine, do not always go well; however, little is known about the failure modes of consultation, thus making it difficult to identify interventions to improve consultation quality.

Objective

To understand how stakeholders envision the ideal inpatient consultation and identify how and why consultations commonly fall short of this ideal.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study used in-depth, semistructured interviews collected from April to October 2017 and analyzed from January 2018 to February 2020 using conventional content analysis. The setting was a single academic medical center in Boston, Massachusetts. Participants were hospitalists and specialist

SUBMITTER: Roche SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9039767 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature