Health and Social Care Professionals' Perspectives of the Desired Interprofessional Collaboration in Frequent Attenders' Person-Centred Care: A Qualitative Study.

The participants were professionals, not patients, families or the public, so the findings are staff views of desired practice. The study asked for future visions, not observed practice, and it did not measure patient outcomes. Only public sector professionals from three organisations in Southern Finland were included, so private and third-sector services are missing. Participants may have been more interested in collaboration than average staff, because recruitment relied on voluntary response. Different interview formats could affect responses, and focus groups could let dominant voices shape discussion, although equal participation was attempted. Some participants may have described current practice instead of desired futures because future-oriented thinking is abstract.

The work was funded by the Finnish Diabetes Association, The Finnish Nursing Education Foundation and The Okka Foundation. The authors declared no conflicts of interest.

Do not read these themes as evidence that interprofessional collaboration improves care. The study asked staff to describe desired futures, not tested interventions.