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Published on: September 30, 2020
Municipal Acute Units as Part of the Clinical Pathway for Older Patients
Anne-Kari Johannessen1,1, Sissel Steihaug2
1OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, NO.
Introduction:
Since 2016, Norwegian municipalities have been obliged to provide municipal acute 24-hour services representing a service before or instead of hospital treatment. This study explores two municipal acute units (MAUs) as part of the clinical pathway for older patients.
Methods:
Patients and healthcare providers from MAUs, purchaser offices, home-based nursing, and physicians were interviewed. Interview transcripts were analysed using systematic text condensation.
Results:
The collaboration between the MAU staff and the GPs, the purchaser offices and the home-based services is described as challenging, mostly due to disagreement regarding patients' admission and discharge. The providers' different understanding seems to derive especially from where they are working in a way that suits their own work functions.An exigent collaboration between providers in the MAUs and their collaborative partners hampers the clinical pathway for older patients in the municipal healthcare service.
Conclusion And Discussion:
When a new healthcare service such as an MAU becomes a part of the clinical pathway in a municipality, it is important to invest a considerable effort in measures designed to strengthen relational and structural collaboration to make the clinical pathway smooth.
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