Creating space to talk about patients' personal goals: experiences from primary care stakeholders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To address the many challenges health systems and communities face, primary care is constantly searching for new strategies to improve quality of care. One of the strategies is to focus on patients' personal goals to direct the care process. To adopt an explicit focus on patients' personal goals, actions at different levels are required. As a first step in this process, this study aims to explore the experiences of primary care stakeholders (i.e., scholars, primary care providers, and policy makers) and develop a comprehensive understanding on the idea 'putting patients' goals first'. This will help to formulate suggestions about what these actions should include.

Method

In this study, 41 primary care stakeholders participating in six focus groups between January

SUBMITTER: Boeykens D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9840292 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature