TITLE:
Understanding and Promoting Clinical Reasoning in Chronic and Multimorbid Conditions: A Call for GPs and Healthcare Professionals
AUTHORS:
Marie-Claude Audétat, Julia Sader, Sarah Cairo Notari, Claire Ritz, Nathalie Caire Fon, Hubert Maisonneuve, Katherine Blondon, Mathieu Nendaz
KEYWORDS:
Clinical Reasoning, Primary Care, Multimorbidity, Supervision
JOURNAL NAME:
Health,
Vol.11 No.10,
October
16,
2019
ABSTRACT: 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.