Barriers and facilitators to implementing a continuing medical education intervention in a primary health care setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Continuing medical education (CME), as a systematic attempt to facilitate change in General Practitioners' (GPs) practices, is considered crucial, assuming that if physicians are up-to-date, they will change and improve their practice, resulting in better performance and ultimately better patient care. However, studies continue to demonstrate considerable gaps between the real and ideal performance and patient-related outcomes. The objective of this study was to explore GP's perception of the factors affecting the implementation of a CME digital platform in a primary health care setting in Portugal.

Methods

Our work is framed in a larger effectiveness-implementation hybrid type 1 study, where a Digital Behaviour Change Intervention (DBCI), called ePrimaPrescribe,

SUBMITTER: Reis T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9099036 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature