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The role of the home health care physician in mobile integrated care: a qualitative phenomenograpic study

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العنوان: The role of the home health care physician in mobile integrated care: a qualitative phenomenograpic study
المؤلفون: Lina Hovlin, Jenny Hallgren, Anna K. Dahl Aslan, Catharina Gillsjö
المصدر: BMC Geriatrics, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2022)
بيانات النشر: BMC
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
مصطلحات موضوعية: Home health care, Home health care physician, Integrated care, Person-centered care, Qualitative, Municipality care, Geriatrics, RC952-954.6
الوصف: Background An increasing older population, along with the organizational principle of remaining at home, has moved health care from institutions into the older person’s home, where several health care providers facilitate care. The Mobile Integrated Care Model strives to provide cost-efficient, coherent, person-centered health care in the home. In the integrated care team, where the home health care physician is the medical authority, several health care professions work across organizational borders. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe Home Health Care Physicians perceptions of working and providing health care in the Mobile Integrated Care Model, as well as perceptions of participating in and forming health care. Methods A phenomenographic qualitative study design, with semi-structured interviews using an interview guide. Results Working within Mobile Integrated Care Model was a different way of working as a physician. The physicians’ role was to support the patient by making safe medical decisions. Physicians described themselves as a piece in the team puzzle, where the professional knowledge of others was crucial to give quality health care. Being in the patients’ homes was expressed as adding a unique dimension in the provision of health care, and the physicians learned more about the patients by meeting them in their homes than at an institution. This aided the physicians in respecting patient autonomy in medical decision making, even though the physicians sometimes disregarded patient autonomy in favor of their own medical experience. There was a divided view on next of kin participation among the home health care physicians, ranging from always including to total absence of involving next of kin in decision making. Conclusions The home health care physicians described the Mobile Integrated Care Model as the best way to work, but there was still a need for additional resources and structure when working in different organizations. The need for full-time employment, additional time or ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1471-2318
العلاقة: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03211-3Test; https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2318Test; https://doaj.org/article/142cc7e8e5574515a682970d4032ca9aTest
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-022-03211-3
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03211-3Test
https://doaj.org/article/142cc7e8e5574515a682970d4032ca9aTest
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.63F32CD
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
تدمد:14712318
DOI:10.1186/s12877-022-03211-3