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Table 2 Themes and subthemes

From: A qualitative analysis of the barriers and enablers faced by Australian rural general practitioners in the non-pharmacological management of congestive heart failure in community dwelling patients

Theme

Subtheme

Resources

Distance to services

Inadequate consultation time and remuneration

Inadequate service availability

Complexity of heart failure

Patients’ understanding of disease

Comorbidities

Coordinated multidisciplinary care

Relationships

Relationships between GPs and cardiologists

Relationships between GPs and their patients

Patient demographics, priorities and views

Socio-economic disadvantage and patients’ personal priorities

Patients’ family-level barriers

Patients’ views