A Description of Patient and Provider Experience and Clinical Outcomes After Heart Failure Shared Medical Appointment

Cohen, Lisa; Parent, Melanie; Taveira, Tracey H.; Dev, Sandesh; Wu, Wen‐Chih

doi:10.1177/2374373517714452

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“…These data highlight how the SMA environment facilitates provider learning about multidisciplinary patient care through direct observation of providers during the SMA sessions [24]. Additionally, this study illustrates how this environment can support better care by enhancing opportunities for communication and care coordination among providers similar to other studies [19][20][21]. While in this study providers differed in their opinion on whether SMAs are an efficient use of providers' time all respondents noted the unique knowledge gained by observations of patientpatient and patient-provider interactions.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…This qualitative study expands upon other studies examining providers' experiences with SMAs [19,20] and focuses on providers' knowledge of structure, attitudes about effectiveness, and ideas on how to improve the practice of SMAs. The findings support other work highlighting the importance of a collaborative multi-disciplinary team to a successful SMA program [5,[21][22][23][24] and more recently discussed by Thompon-Lastad and Gardiner [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Even though numerous studies have highlighted the benefits of participation in SMAs to patients with chronic illnesses such as heart failure, diabetes and blood pressure [7][8][9][10][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] there is room for further spread of this type of care delivery model. These findings illustrate the provider experience and further detailing the patient experience could inform facilitation and implementation strategies to encourage providers to lead and/or refer patients to SMAs.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Shared medical appointments (SMAs) offer a means for providing knowledge and skills needed for chronic disease management to patients. However, SMAs require a time and attention investment from health care providers, who must understand the goals and potential benefits of SMAs from the perspective of patients and providers. To better understand how to gain provider engagement and inform future SMA implementation, qualitative inquiry of provider experience based on a knowledge-attitude-practice model was explored. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 health care providers leading SMAs for heart failure at three Veterans Administration Medical Centers. Rapid matrix analysis process techniques including team-based qualitative inquiry followed by stakeholder validation was employed. The interview guide followed a knowledge-attitude-practice model with a priori domains of knowledge of SMA structure and content (understanding of how SMAs were structured), SMA attitude/beliefs (general expectations about SMA use), attitudes regarding how leading SMAs affected patients, and providers. Data regarding the patient referral process (organizational processes for referring patients to SMAs) and suggested improvements were collected to further inform the development of SMA implementation best practices. Providers from all three sites reported similar knowledge, attitude and beliefs of SMAs. In general, providers reported that the multi-disciplinary structure of SMAs was an effective strategy towards improving clinical outcomes for patients. Emergent themes regarding experiences with SMAs included improved self-efficacy gained from real-time collaboration with providers from multiple disciplines, perceived decrease in patient re-hospitalizations, and promotion of self-management skills for patients with HF. Most providers reported that the SMA-setting facilitated patient learning by providing opportunities for the sharing of experiences and knowledge. This was associated with the perception of increased comradery and support among patients. Future research is needed to test suggested improvements and to develop best practices for training additional sites to implement HF SMA.

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“…In a study by Girgis and Ward (Girgis and Ward 2004), only 19.1% of participants (Arabic-speaking patients with diabetes) reported receiving diabetes-related information from their HCPs in the previous year [46]. Information access may enhance patients' understanding of their disease and treatment, which in turn may enhance adherence, self-management [47], and health outcomes [48].…”

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Exploring the Health Care Challenges and Health Care Needs of Arabic-Speaking Immigrants with Cardiovascular Disease in Australia

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The Arabic-speaking immigrant group, which makes up the fourth largest language group in Australia, has a high prevalence of cardiovascular disease. The objective of this study was to explore the health care challenges and needs of Arabic-speaking immigrants with cardiovascular disease (CVD), using a comparative approach with English-speaking patients with CVD as the comparable group. Methods: Participants were recruited from community settings in Melbourne, Australia. Face-to-face semi-structured individual interviews were conducted at the recruitment sites. All interviews were audio-taped, transcribed, and coded thematically. Results: 29 participants with CVD were recruited; 15 Arabic-speaking and 14 English-speaking. Arabic-speaking immigrants, and to a lesser extent English-speaking patients with CVD may have specific health care challenges and needs. Arabic-speaking immigrants’ health care needs include: effective health care provider (HCP)-patient communication, accessible care, participation in decision-making, and empowerment. English-speaking participants viewed these needs as important for CVD management. However, only a few English-speaking participants cited these needs as unmet health care needs. Conclusion: This study suggests that Arabic-speaking immigrants with CVD may have unique needs including the need for privacy, effective HCP-patient communication that takes into account patients’ limited English proficiency, and pharmacist-physician collaboration. Therefore, there may be a need to identify a health care model that can address these patients’ health care challenges and needs. This, in turn, may improve their disease management and health outcomes.

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“…Patients sharing the lived experience of having a chronic illness, formed new friendships, gaining and providing emotional support. This activity is a highly effective strategy to drive improvements and aligns with the current practice of shared medical appointments ( 47 ). Patient networking is a psychosocial activity for managing chronic illness that can reduce isolation, promote shared understanding, and build resilience despite their health challenges ( 48 ).…”

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Kindness, Listening, and Connection: Patient and Clinician Key Requirements for Emotional Support in Chronic and Complex Care

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Emotional support for patients is critical for achieving person-centered care. However, the literature evidences an ongoing challenge in embedding emotional support within current health services. This study aimed to investigate the strategies to embed emotional support from the perspectives of patients and clinicians. This is an exploratory qualitative study that collected data through focus group discussions (FGDs) and interviews from 11 patients, 2 carers, and 7 clinicians in the multi-disciplinary care teams in an outpatient complex and chronic care setting in New South Wales, Australia. The FGDs and interviews were recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. Three main themes emerged from the experience of both the patients and clinicians: (1) warmth and kindness, (2) deep listening, and (3) social connection in the process of treatment. Clinicians’ and patients’ shared experience of these themes was key to embed emotional support in care. Practical strategies including promoting shared understanding of emotional support, enhancing provider's capability to deliver emotional support, and building patient's networking opportunities in treatment processes were discussed to facilitate emotional support in patient care and health services.

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A Description of Patient and Provider Experience and Clinical Outcomes After Heart Failure Shared Medical Appointment

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Healthcare providers experiences with shared medical appointments for heart failure

Healthcare providers experiences with shared medical appointments for heart failure

Exploring the Health Care Challenges and Health Care Needs of Arabic-Speaking Immigrants with Cardiovascular Disease in Australia

Kindness, Listening, and Connection: Patient and Clinician Key Requirements for Emotional Support in Chronic and Complex Care

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