Author(s)

Marie-Claude Audétat^1,2,3*, Julia Sader¹, Sarah Cairo Notari², Claire Ritz², Nathalie Caire Fon³, Hubert Maisonneuve², Katherine Blondon^4,5, Mathieu Nendaz^1,5

¹UDREM (Unit of Development and Research in Medical Education), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
²UIGP (Family Medicine Unit), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³Family and Emergency Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
⁴CIS (Center of Interprofessional Simulation), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Multimorbidity, defined as 2 or more chronic diseases, is of increasing importance for health professionals. Many factors are at play when it comes to multimorbidity, but we still know very little about how clinicians actually weigh up the different factors—medical, social, and psychological—to reach a particular course of action. Further research is therefore required to explore the ways in which clinical reasoning processes are involved in the follow up of patients suffering from multimorbidities, to highlight their potential risks of errors. A better understanding of these clinical processes will also enrich supervision of trainees and collaboration between healthcare professionals involved in primary care.

Clinical Reasoning, Primary Care, Multimorbidity, Supervision

Audétat, M. , Sader, J. , Notari, S. , Ritz, C. , Fon, N. , Maisonneuve, H. , Blondon, K. and Nendaz, M. (2019) Understanding and Promoting Clinical Reasoning in Chronic and Multimorbid Conditions: A Call for GPs and Healthcare Professionals. Health, 11, 1338-1346. doi: 10.4236/health.2019.1110103.