Key barriers to improving heart failure care in primary care include GP uncertainty, evidence implementation, and multiprofessional teamwork.
The main challenges identified in this synthesis were how to deal with GPs' uncertainty about clinical practice, how to bring evidence into practice and how to work together as a multiprofessional team. These barriers were situated predominantly on the physician and contextual level. Targets to improve GPs' HF care were identified.
Smeets et al. (Tue,) studied this question.