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- Title
Addressing unmet needs of patients with chronic diseases: Impact of the VISIT website during consultations.
- Authors
Lee, Yew Kong; Ng, Chirk Jenn; Low, Wah Yun
- Abstract
Rationale, aims, and objectives Patient concerns are often neglected in consultations, especially for chronic diseases where patients and providers fall into the routine of chronic disease management in consultations. One strategy to elicit patient concerns has been to ask patients to complete agenda lists before the consultation. This study aimed to explore the impact of a preconsultation agenda website in addressing patients' unmet needs during chronic disease consultations. Methods Patients entered their concerns into a website (Values In Shared Interactions Tool (VISIT)). Doctors accessed this information via the electronic medical records before consultations. Individual in-depth interviews were then conducted with patients and doctors on the website's impact on consultations. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically. Results The average age (years) was 65.7 for patients ( n = 8) and 35.7 for doctors ( n = 7). Patients in the study entered between 1 to 6 items in the website. From postconsultation interviews, we found that the website impacted the consultation in 5 ways: (1) It facilitated patients to communicate their full agenda to doctors; (2) it helped address unmet patient needs as it gave them opportunity to raise other issues besides their chronic condition; (3) it facilitated rapport between doctor and patient; (4) it facilitated doctors to organize their consultation around the concerns the patient had listed; and (5) it disrupted the doctor's usual consultation style if the list of concerns was lengthy. Conclusions Integrating patient concerns into electronic health records helped to facilitate patient-centred consultations. Doctors found this information useful but felt uneasy if the agenda list was too long or too complex. Areas for future studies include training doctors to manage complex agendas and formal evaluation of the VISIT tool.
- Subjects
CHRONIC diseases; INTERVIEWING; MEDICAL needs assessment; MEDICAL informatics; MEDICAL referrals; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; WORLD Wide Web; THEMATIC analysis; ELECTRONIC health records
- Publication
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 6, p1281
- ISSN
1356-1294
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jep.12777