Primary Care Provider Experience With Proactive E-Consults to Improve COPD Outcomes and Access to Specialty Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Often patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) receive poor quality care with limited access to pulmonologists. We tested a novel intervention, INtegrating Care After Exacerbation of COPD (InCasE), that improved patient outcomes after hospitalization for COPD. InCasE used population-based identification of patients for proactive e-consultation by pulmonologists, and tailored recommendations with pre-populated orders timed to follow-up with primary care providers (PCPs). Although adoption by PCPs was high, we do not know how PCPs experienced the intervention.

Objective

Our objective was to assess PCPs' experience with proactive pulmonary e-consults after hospitalization for COPD.

Methods

We conducted a convergent mixed methods study among s

SUBMITTER: Spece LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9995235 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature