'Experience talks': physician prioritisation of contrasting interventions to optimise management of acute cough in general practice

Cals, Jochen W. L., Butler, Christopher Collett ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0102-3453 and Dinant, Geert-Jan 2009. 'Experience talks': physician prioritisation of contrasting interventions to optimise management of acute cough in general practice. Implementation Science 4 , pp. 57-62. 10.1186/1748-5908-4-57

Preview

PDF - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (226kB) | Preview

Abstract

Background Uptake of interventions to improve quality of care by clinicians is variable and is influenced by clinicians' attitudes. The influence of clinicians' experience with an intervention on their preference for adopting interventions is largely unknown. Methods Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews exploring views and attitudes towards an illness-focused intervention (specific communication skills training) and a disease-focused intervention (C-reactive protein, or CRP, point-of-care testing) to optimize management of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) among general practitioners (GPs) who had used both interventions for two years in a randomised trial (exposed GPs), and GPs without experience of either intervention (non-exposed GPs). Results All but two of the ten non-exposed GPs indicated that they would prioritise implementation of the disease-focused intervention of CRP testing over communication skills training, while all but one GP in the exposed group said that they would prioritise the illness-focused approach of communication skills training as it was more widely applicable, whereas CRP testing was confirmatory and useful in a subgroups of patients. Conclusion There are differences in attitudes to prioritising contrasting interventions for optimising LRTI management among GPs with and without experience of using the interventions, although GPs in both groups recognised the importance of both approaches to optimise management of acute cough. GPs' experiences with and attitudes towards interventions need to be taken into account when planning rollout of interventions aimed at changing clinical practice.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	BioMed Central
ISSN:	1748-5908
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 10:52
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/28802

Citation Data

Cited 23 times in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item