Perception of health professionals about shared care between primary care and home care

Rev Gaucha Enferm. 2021 Dec 6:42:e20200410. doi: 10.1590/1983-1447.2021.20200410. eCollection 2021.
[Article in English, Portuguese]

Abstract

Objective: to understand how health professionals perceive the shared care between the teams of Primary Health Care and Home Care Service.

Method: descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, carried out with 17 professionals, in the municipality of Campo Grande, MS. Data were collected from August to October 2019, through semi-structured audio-recorded interviews and submitted to content analysis.

Results: lack of knowledge, lack of qualification, lack of ordering of care and weakness in counter-referral were some of the challenges mentioned for shared care. However, interinstitutional visits, communication, discussion of cases, action planning, were perceived as strategies to carry it out.

Final considerations: professionals perceive that home care is permeated by limitations and weaknesses in relation to the effectuation of shared care between the different health teams.

MeSH terms

  • Attitude of Health Personnel*
  • Health Personnel
  • Home Care Services*
  • Humans
  • Perception
  • Primary Health Care
  • Qualitative Research