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The real-world problem of care coordination : a longitudinal qualitative study with patients living with advanced progressive illness and their unpaid caregivers
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Daveson, Barbara A., Harding, Richard, Shipman, Cathy, Mason, Bruce L., Epiphaniou, Eleni, Higginson, Irene J., Ellis-Smith, Clare, Henson, Lesley, Munday, Dan, Nanton, Veronica, Dale, Jeremy, Boyd, Kirsty, Worth, Allison, Barclay, Stephen, Donaldson, Anne and Murray, Scott A. (2014) The real-world problem of care coordination : a longitudinal qualitative study with patients living with advanced progressive illness and their unpaid caregivers. PLoS One, Volume 9 (Number 5). Article number e95523. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095523
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095523
Abstract
Objectives
To develop a model of care coordination for patients living with advanced progressive illness and their unpaid caregivers, and to understand their perspective regarding care coordination.
Design
A prospective longitudinal, multi-perspective qualitative study involving a case-study approach.
Methods
Serial in-depth interviews were conducted, transcribed verbatim and then analyzed through open and axial coding in order to construct categories for three cases (sites). This was followed by continued thematic analysis to identify underlying conceptual coherence across all cases in order to produce one coherent care coordination model.
Participants
Fifty-six purposively sampled patients and 27 case-linked unpaid caregivers.
Settings
Three cases from contrasting primary, secondary and tertiary settings within Britain.
Results
Coordination is a deliberate cross-cutting action that involves high-quality, caring and well-informed staff, patients and unpaid caregivers who must work in partnership together across health and social care settings. For coordination to occur, it must be adequately resourced with efficient systems and services that communicate. Patients and unpaid caregivers contribute substantially to the coordination of their care, which is sometimes volunteered at a personal cost to them. Coordination is facilitated through flexible and patient-centered care, characterized by accurate and timely information communicated in a way that considers patients’ and caregivers’ needs, preferences, circumstances and abilities.
Conclusions
Within the midst of advanced progressive illness, coordination is a shared and complex intervention involving relational, structural and information components. Our study is one of the first to extensively examine patients’ and caregivers’ views about coordination, thus aiding conceptual fidelity. These findings can be used to help avoid oversimplifying a real-world problem, such as care coordination. Avoiding oversimplification can help with the development, evaluation and implementation of real-world coordination interventions for patients and their unpaid caregivers in the future.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Palliative treatment, Caregivers | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2 May 2014 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 9 | ||||||||
| Number: | Number 5 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | Article number e95523 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0095523 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR), Atlantic Philanthropies (Organization), Cicely Saunders International | ||||||||
| Grant number: | 08/1813/258 (NIHR) |
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