TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brückle, Maria-Sophie
A1  - Sophia Dinh, Truc
A1  - Klein, Astrid-Alexandra
A1  - Rietschel, Lisa
A1  - Petermann, Jenny
A1  - Brosse, Franziska
A1  - Schulz-Rothe, Sylvia
A1  - Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Ana I.
A1  - Kramer, Martin
A1  - Engler, Jennifer
A1  - Mergenthal, Karola
A1  - Muth, Christiane
A1  - Voigt, Karen
A1  - Akker, Marjan van den
T1  - Development of an intervention to improve informational continuity of care in older patients with polypharmacy at the interface between general practice and hospital care: protocol for a participatory qualitative study in Germany
T2  - BMJ Open
N2  - Introduction: Older patients with multimorbidity, polypharmacy and related complex care needs represent a growing proportion of the population and a challenge for healthcare systems. Particularly in transitional care (hospital admission and hospital discharge), medical errors, inappropriate treatment, patient concerns and lack of confidence in healthcare are major problems that may arise from a lack of information continuity. The aim of this study is to develop an intervention to improve informational continuity of care at the interface between general practice and hospital care.
Methods and analysis: A qualitative approach will be used to develop our participatory intervention. Overall, 32 semistructured interviews with relevant stakeholders will be conducted and analysed. The stakeholders will include healthcare professionals from the outpatient setting (general practitioners, healthcare assistants, ambulatory care nurses) and the inpatient setting (clinical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, clinical information scientists) as well as patients and informal caregivers. At a series of workshops based on the results of the stakeholder analyses, we aim to develop a participatory intervention that will then be implemented in a subsequent pilot study. The same stakeholder groups will be invited for participation in the workshops.
Ethics and dissemination: Ethical approval for this study was waived by the Ethics Committee of Goethe University Frankfurt because of the nature of the proposed study. Written informed consent will be obtained from all study participants prior to participation. Results will be tested in a pilot study and disseminated at (inter)national conferences and via publication in peer-reviewed journals.
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/82708
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-827086
SN  - 2044-6055
N1  - Funding: This work was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany (BMBF), grant number (01GK1906A).
VL  - 12.2022
IS  - 4, art. e058016
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
PB  - BMJ Publishing Group
CY  - London
ER  -