Abstract
Abstract
Background
Persons with neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) often experience complex rehabilitation needs due to the disease’s impact on their functioning and progression of their diseases. As a consequence of legislation and “policy power”, community-based health professionals function as gatekeepers to the rehabilitation trajectory for persons with NMDs in a field where the other professionals are the specialists.
Aim
To investigate community-based health professionals’ reflections on and behaviors regarding collaboration with a tertiary rehabilitation hospital in a cross-sectorial rehabilitation care model with the overall aim of providing high quality rehabilitation for persons with NMD.
Methods
The design is qualitative and uses interpretive description methodology and the theoretical lens of Edgar Schein’s three levels of organizational culture and leadership.
An ethnographic fieldwork was conducted from September 1, 2019 to January 30, 2020. Eighty-four community-based health professionals were included and 17 of them were interviewed in four semi-structured focus group interviews (n = 10) and seven individual interviews (n = 7). In addition, 151 pages of observation data were generated. The study adheres to the COREQ guidelines.
Results
The analysis showed three themes of importance for the collaboration: Policy and legislation navigation represented that collaboration on rehabilitation was affected by legislation as a management tool with “the case” as the core element, and goal dilemmas. Cross-sectorial knowledge exchange promoted collaboration on coordinated and facilitated rehabilitation and knowledge sharing as a firm anchoring. Patient ownership negotiations implied collaboration was influenced by knowledge founded power and gatekeeping as a navigation tool.
Conclusion
Three levels of organizational culture and leadership were identified, and this overall structure guided the community-based health professionals in their work and in the complex organizational landscape of collaboration between disconnected healthcare systems. The findings provided insight into behavior and attitudes and the content and the values held by the professionals collaborating across sectors. Future collaboration in rehabilitation models should be multiprofessional and team based. The findings emphasize that it is imperative that managements and professionals strive to strengthen the structure of the collaborative team spirit because this will ensure well-planned, coordinated, and conducted rehabilitation for persons with NMD and enable and support future cross-sectorial collaboration in this rehabilitation model for these persons.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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