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Table 1 Incentives and barriers to GPs participation in IHSNs

From: Fostering participation of general practitioners in integrated health services networks: incentives, barriers, and guidelines

 

Incentives

Barriers

Clinician characteristics

- Having elderly persons in clientele

- Having a high number of SIPA patients

- Having collaborative practices

 

Perceived consequences

- Initial concerns

- Initial expectations

IHSN implementation

- Selection of frail elderly patients

- Influence of peers

- Short-term duration

- Physicians recruited after patients

- Little information provided

Relationship with SIPA team

- Close relationships with case managers

- Conflict with the geriatrician

- Lack of communication on patients

Professional consequences

- Efficacy of SIPA

- Quality of SIPA

- Funding

- Improved professional practice

- Physician-patient relationships