TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding how to improve collaboration between hospitals and primary care in postdischarge care transitions
T2 - A qualitative study of primary care leaders' perspectives
AU - Nguyen, Oanh Kieu
AU - Kruger, Jenna
AU - Greysen, S. Ryan
AU - Lyndon, Audrey
AU - Goldman, L. Elizabeth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Society of Hospital Medicine.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - BACKGROUND: There is limited collaboration between hospitals and primary care despite parallel efforts to improve postdischarge care transitions. OBJECTIVE: To understand what primary care leaders perceived as barriers and facilitators to collaboration with hospitals. METHODS: Qualitative study with in-depth, semistructured interviews of 22 primary care leaders in 2012 from California safety-net clinics. RESULTS: Major barriers to collaboration included lack of institutional financial incentives for collaboration, competing priorities (e.g., regulatory requirements, strained clinic capacity, financial strain) and mismatched expectations about role and capacity of primary care to improve care transitions. Facilitators included relationship building through interpersonal networking and improving communication and information transfer via electronic health record (EHR) implementation. CONCLUSIONS: Efforts to improve care transitions should focus on aligning financial incentives, standardizing regulations around EHR interoperability and data sharing, and enhancing opportunities for interpersonal networking.
AB - BACKGROUND: There is limited collaboration between hospitals and primary care despite parallel efforts to improve postdischarge care transitions. OBJECTIVE: To understand what primary care leaders perceived as barriers and facilitators to collaboration with hospitals. METHODS: Qualitative study with in-depth, semistructured interviews of 22 primary care leaders in 2012 from California safety-net clinics. RESULTS: Major barriers to collaboration included lack of institutional financial incentives for collaboration, competing priorities (e.g., regulatory requirements, strained clinic capacity, financial strain) and mismatched expectations about role and capacity of primary care to improve care transitions. Facilitators included relationship building through interpersonal networking and improving communication and information transfer via electronic health record (EHR) implementation. CONCLUSIONS: Efforts to improve care transitions should focus on aligning financial incentives, standardizing regulations around EHR interoperability and data sharing, and enhancing opportunities for interpersonal networking.
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U2 - 10.1002/jhm.2257
DO - 10.1002/jhm.2257
M3 - Article
C2 - 25211608
AN - SCOPUS:84932107444
SN - 1553-5592
VL - 9
SP - 700
EP - 706
JO - Journal of hospital medicine
JF - Journal of hospital medicine
IS - 11
ER -