Digital Tool Enhancing GPs' Information Management for Patients with Multimorbidity - a Pilot Study

"The intervention is based on a digital tool, which implements recommendations of the S3 guideline multimorbidity of the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians. The tool includes nine questionnaires addressing four dimensions of care:~1. preferences (including a. treatment goals, and b. involvement of other persons in decision making);~2. activities (including a. activities and participation, and b. social support);~3. treatment (including a. problems with medication, and b. treatment burden);~4. complaints (including a. pain, b. psychiatric disorders, and c. other complaints).~The GPs can send the questionnaires by email to the patients and the patients can fill out the questionnaires at their home or in the waiting room of the GP's practice using their own smartphones, tablets or computers. The digital tool also includes instructions for conducting a medication review. Results from talks between GPs and patients can be documented in the tool."