RT Journal Article
T1 Barriers and Solutions to Improve Therapeutic Adherence from the Perspective of Primary Care and Hospital-Based Physicians.
A1 Carratalá-Munuera, Concepción
A1 Cortés-Castell, Ernesto
A1 Márquez-Contreras, Emilio
A1 Castellano, José Maria
A1 Perez-Paramo, María
A1 López-Pineda, Adriana
A1 Gil-Guillen, Vicente F
K1 chronic disease
K1 consensus
K1 family practice
K1 general practitioners
K1 hospital medicine
K1 treatment adherence and compliance
AB To identify the barriers affecting treatment adherence in patients with chronic disease and to determine solutions through the physician's opinion of primary care and hospital settings. An observational study using the nominal group technique was performed to reach a consensus from experts. A structured face-to-face group discussion was carried out with physicians with more than 10 years of experience in the subject of treatment adherence/compliance in either the primary care setting or the hospital setting. The experts individually rated a list of questions using the Likert scale and prioritized the top 10 questions to identify barriers and seek solutions afterward. The top 10 questions that obtained the maximum score for both groups of experts were prioritized. During the final discussion group, participating experts analyzed the prioritized items and debated on each problem to reach consensual solutions for improvement. A total of 17 professionals experts participated in the study, nine of them were from a primary care setting. In the expert group from the primary care setting, the proposed solution for the barrier identified as the highest priority was to simplify treatments, measure adherence and review medication. In the expert group from the hospital setting, the proposed solution for the barrier identified as the highest priority was training on motivational clinical interviews for healthcare workers undergraduate and postgraduate education. Finally, the expert participants proposed implementing an improvement plan with eight key ideas. A consensual improvement plan to facilitate the control of therapeutic adherence in patients with chronic disease was developed, taking into account expert physicians' opinions from primary care and hospital settings about barriers and solutions to address therapeutic adherence in patients with chronic disease.
SN 1177-889X
YR 2022
FD 2022-03-11
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/20475
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/20475
LA en
DS RISalud
RD May 9, 2025