TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving kNowledge Transfer to Efficaciously RAise the level of Contemporary Treatment in Heart Failure (INTERACT-in-HF)
T2 - Study protocol of a mixed methods study
AU - Baldewijns, Karolien
AU - Bektas, Sema
AU - Boyne, Josiane
AU - Rohde, Carla
AU - De Maesschalck, Lieven
AU - De Bleser, Leentje
AU - Brandenburg, Vincent
AU - Knackstedt, Christian
AU - Deville, Aleidis
AU - Sanders-Van Wijk, Sandra
AU - La Rocca, Hans-Peter Brunner
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - Heart failure is a complex disease with poor outcome. This complexity may prevent care providers from covering all aspects of care. This could not only be relevant for individual patient care, but also for care organisation. Disease management programmes applying a multidisciplinary approach are recommended to improve heart failure care. However, there is a scarcity of research considering how disease management programme perform, in what form they should be offered, and what care and support patients and care providers would benefit most. Therefore, the Improving kNowledge Transfer to Efficaciously Raise the level of Contemporary Treatment in Heart Failure (INTERACT-in-HF) study aims to explore the current processes of heart failure care and to identify factors that may facilitate and factors that may hamper heart failure care and guideline adherence. Within a cross-sectional mixed method design in three regions of the North-West part of Europe, patients (n=88) and their care providers (n=59) were interviewed. Prior to the in-depth interviews, patients were asked to complete three questionnaires: The Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge scale, The European Heart Failure Self-care Behaviour Scale and The global health status and social economic status. In parallel, retrospective data based on records from these (n=88) and additional patients (n=82) are reviewed. All interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim for analysis.
AB - Heart failure is a complex disease with poor outcome. This complexity may prevent care providers from covering all aspects of care. This could not only be relevant for individual patient care, but also for care organisation. Disease management programmes applying a multidisciplinary approach are recommended to improve heart failure care. However, there is a scarcity of research considering how disease management programme perform, in what form they should be offered, and what care and support patients and care providers would benefit most. Therefore, the Improving kNowledge Transfer to Efficaciously Raise the level of Contemporary Treatment in Heart Failure (INTERACT-in-HF) study aims to explore the current processes of heart failure care and to identify factors that may facilitate and factors that may hamper heart failure care and guideline adherence. Within a cross-sectional mixed method design in three regions of the North-West part of Europe, patients (n=88) and their care providers (n=59) were interviewed. Prior to the in-depth interviews, patients were asked to complete three questionnaires: The Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge scale, The European Heart Failure Self-care Behaviour Scale and The global health status and social economic status. In parallel, retrospective data based on records from these (n=88) and additional patients (n=82) are reviewed. All interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim for analysis.
KW - Heart failure
KW - organisation and administration
KW - interviews
KW - care providers
KW - healthcare quality
KW - access
KW - evaluation
KW - mixed methods
KW - DISEASE MANAGEMENT
KW - PRIMARY-CARE
KW - NONCARDIAC COMORBIDITIES
KW - QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
KW - EUROPEAN-SOCIETY
KW - LIFE EXPECTANCY
KW - POPULATION
KW - DIAGNOSIS
KW - PATIENT
KW - HOSPITALIZATION
U2 - 10.1177/2053434517726318
DO - 10.1177/2053434517726318
M3 - Article
C2 - 29472989
SN - 2053-4345
VL - 20
SP - 171
EP - 182
JO - International Journal of Care Coordination
JF - International Journal of Care Coordination
IS - 4
ER -