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‘More constricting than inspiring’ — GPs find chronic care programmes of limited clinical utility. A qualitative study

Mads Aage Toft Kristensen, Tina Drud Due, Bibi Hølge-Hazelton, Ann Dorrit Guassora and Frans Boch Waldorff
BJGP Open 2018; 2 (2): bjgpopen18X101591. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen18X101591
Mads Aage Toft Kristensen
1 PhD Student, Department of Public Health, Research Unit for General Practice and Section for General Medicine, , Denmark
2 GP, Southern Køge Medical Centre, , Denmark
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  • For correspondence: mads.kristensen@sund.ku.dk
Tina Drud Due
3 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Public Health, Research Unit for General Practice and Section for General Medicine, , Denmark
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Bibi Hølge-Hazelton
4 Professor, Zealand University Hospital, , Denmark
5 Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, , Denmark
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Ann Dorrit Guassora
6 Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Research Unit for General Practice and Section for General Medicine, , Denmark
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Frans Boch Waldorff
7 Professor, Research Unit of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, , Denmark
8 Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Research Unit for General Practice and Section for General Medicine, , Denmark
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Abstract

Background As in other countries, Danish health authorities have introduced disease management programmes (DMPs) to improve care quality. These contain clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and guidelines for patient stratification based on doctors’ assessments of disease severity and self-care. However, these programmes are challenged when patients have complex chronic conditions.

Aim To explore how GPs experience the clinical applicability of disease management programmes for patients with multiple chronic conditions and lowered self-care ability.

Design & setting A qualitative study from general practice, conducted in rural areas of Denmark with economically disadvantaged populations.

Method Data were collected through case-based, semi-structured interviews with 12 GPs. The principles of systematic text condensation were used in the analysis.

Results GPs found DMPs inadequate, particularly for patients with multiple conditions and lowered self-care ability. Their experience was that adhering to multiple programmes’ CPGs resulted in too much medication, conflicting treatments, an overload of appointments, and fragmented health care. They disregarded stratifying according to guidelines because they deemed stratification criteria to reflect neither patients’ need for self-care support, nor flexible referral options to hospitals and municipalities. Therefore, GPs were often solely responsible for treatment of patients with very complex chronic conditions.

Conclusion GPs found DMPs to be of limited clinical applicability due to challenges related to CPGs, patient stratification, and lack of adequate health services to support patients with complex healthcare needs. To increase the benefits of these programmes, they should be more flexible, and adjusted to the needs of patients with multiple chronic conditions and lowered self-care ability.

  • Multimorbidity
  • chronic disease
  • general practice
  • self-care
  • continuity of patient care
  • disease management
  • Received December 14, 2017.
  • Accepted March 1, 2018.
  • Copyright © The Authors 2018

This article is Open Access: CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Mads Aage Toft Kristensen, Tina Drud Due, Bibi Hølge-Hazelton, Ann Dorrit Guassora, Frans Boch Waldorff
BJGP Open 2018; 2 (2): bjgpopen18X101591. DOI: 10.3399/bjgpopen18X101591

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BJGP Open 2018; 2 (2): bjgpopen18X101591. DOI: 10.3399/bjgpopen18X101591
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