General practitioners' perceptions of distributed leadership in providing integrated care for elderly chronic multi-morbid patients: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Distributed Leadership (DL) has been suggested as being helpful when different health care professionals and patients need to work together across professional and organizational boundaries to provide integrated care (IC). This study explores whether General Practitioners (GPs) adopt leadership actions that transcend organizational boundaries to provide IC for patients and discusses whether the GPs' leadership actions in collaboration with patients and health care professionals contribute to DL.

Methods

We interviewed GPs (n = 20) of elderly multimorbid patients in a municipality in Norway. A qualitative interpretive case design and Gioia methodology was applied to the collection and analysis of data from semi-structured interviews.

Results

GPs are involved

SUBMITTER: Braut H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9404619 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature