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Interprofessional collaboration in a community virtual ward: A focus group study.

Trude Fløystad EinesMarianne StormCecilie Katrine Utheim Grønvik
Published in: Scandinavian journal of caring sciences (2023)
We found that interprofessional collaboration in community virtual wards may be a sustainable way of organising healthcare services for patients with multimorbidity living at home. Interprofessional collaboration with a patient-centred and health promotion approach, seems to increase the quality of the follow-up for patients with multimorbidity living at home. Additionally, mutual interprofessional trust and respect seems to be essential for making use of the unique expertise of different professions in the follow-up for patients with multimorbidity. In the future, both the patient's voice and opinion of their next of kin should be considered in the development of more sustainable homecare services.
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