Patient and primary care practitioners' perspectives on consultations for fibromyalgia: a qualitative evidence synthesis.

Background: Fibromyalgia presents a challenge to both the patients experiencing symptoms and the staff aiming to treat them. This qualitative review aimed to synthesise how patients and practitioners experience primary care consultations, develop a rounded picture of how they perceive each other, the challenges to primary care consultation and how they might be tackled.

Methods: CINAHL, Embase, CENTRAL and Medline were searched from inception to November 2021.