PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Patrice Ngangue AU - Judith Belle Brown AU - Catherine Forgues AU - Mohamed Ali Ag Ahmed AU - Tu Ngoc Nguyen AU - Maxime Sasseville AU - Christine Loignon AU - Frances Gallagher AU - Moira Stewart AU - Martin Fortin TI - Evaluating the implementation of interdisciplinary patient-centred care intervention for people with multimorbidity in primary care: a qualitative study AID - 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046914 DP - 2021 Sep 01 TA - BMJ Open PG - e046914 VI - 11 IP - 9 4099 - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/9/e046914.short 4100 - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/9/e046914.full SO - BMJ Open2021 Sep 01; 11 AB - Objective A patient-centred care interdisciplinary pragmatic intervention to support self-management for patients with multimorbidity was implemented in one region of Quebec, Canada. This embedded study aimed to evaluate the process of implementation.Design A descriptive qualitative study was conducted in 2016–2017 using semistructured individual interviews. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) was used to guide the data coding, analysis and reporting of the findings.Setting The study took place in seven Family Medicine Groups in one region (Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean) of Quebec, Canada.Participants Ten managers (including two family physicians) and 19 healthcare professionals (HCPs), nurses, kinesiologists, nutritionists and a respiratory therapist, were interviewed.Results Many key elements within the five CFIR domains were identified as impacting the implementation of the intervention : (1) intervention characteristics—evidence strength and quality, design quality and packaging, relative advantage and complexity; (2) outer setting—patients’ needs and resources, external policies and incentives; (3) inner setting—structural characteristics, networks and communication, culture, compatibility, readiness for implementation and leadership engagement; (4) characteristics of the managers and HCPs—knowledge and belief about the intervention; (5) process—planning, opinion leaders, formally appointed internal implementation leaders, reflecting and evaluating.Conclusion This study revealed the organisational and contextual aspects of the implementation based on different and complementary perspectives. With the growing demand for interdisciplinary teams in primary care, we believe that our insights will be helpful for practices, researchers, and policymakers interested in the implementation of disease prevention and management programmes for people with multiple chronic conditions in primary care.Trial registration number NCT02789800.All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplemental information. The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.