Patients' perspectives on a patient-oriented electronic decision support tool to reduce overuse of proton pump inhibitors (arriba-PPI): a qualitative study in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To evaluate patients' perspectives and their experiences with a consultation involving a computer-assisted and patient-centered discontinuation strategy (arriba-PPI tool) as part of a German multicenter study on reducing the prescription of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).

Methods

Qualitative in-depth telephone interviews on proton pump inhibitors with patients who had received an arriba-PPI tool-based counseling by their general practitioner (GP). A random sample of 30 patients was taken from study participants. Interviews were conducted in 2020 and analyzed using a thematic qualitative text analysis.

Results

Although this was meant to be the key to shared decision making with regard to PPI reduction, study participants mostly did not recall the visual featu

SUBMITTER: Schmidt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9875449 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature