Bijetri Bose, Amy Raub, Aleta Sprague, Alfredo Martin, Pragya Bhuwania, Rachel Kidman, Jody Heymann
Do tuition-free lower secondary education policies matter for antenatal care among women in sub-saharan African countries?
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
integrative cooperation different healthcare professional key component high quality health services aging population many longterm conditions health tasks followup care transferred primary care locally people live interprofessional collaboration among providers different professional designations increasing importance optimizing primary care capacity years come call exploration models interprofessional collaboration might applicable norwegian primary care aim study explore experiences interprofessional collaboration primary care physicians nurses working primary care applying intervention people type 2 diabetes specifically study designed strengthen gain deeper insight interprofessional collaboration primary care physicians nurses primary care settings applied interpretive description research strategy participants within study primary care physicians nurses four different primary care practices western eastern parts norway used semistructured telephone interviews collecting data january september 2021 analysis revealed two key features primary care physicians nurses experience interprofessional collaboration primary care practices first involved managing influence discrepancies expectations ipc second involved becoming aware competence developed allowed better complementarity consultation study indicates interprofessional collaboration primary care practice requires primary care physicians nurses clarify expectations turn determine flexible become changing usual primary care practices moreover findings reveal nurses primary care physicians discrepancies expectations interprofessional collaboration carried primary care practice however nurses primary care physicians appreciated blending complementary competencies skills facilitated collaborative care practice experienced interprofessional collaboration represented essential quality improvement primary care services trial registered 03092019 clinicaltrialsgov id nct04076384