| Autor: |
Cosgrove MP; Woodhouse Health Centre, Leeds. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners [Br J Gen Pract] 1990 Feb; Vol. 40 (331), pp. 50-2. |
| Abstrakt: |
A series of 40 patients in general practice who failed to attend for their appointments were studied to look at their patterns of attendance over the previous five years, together with their reasons for default. The group not only defaulted more often than a group of age and sex matched controls but made significantly more visits to the surgery. Seventeen of the patients increased their default rate as their attendance rate increased over the five year period. The main reasons patients gave for defaulting on the occasion studied were: feeling too ill to attend (eight patients), resolution of symptoms (six) or forgotten/confused appointment time (seven). Four patients were thought by the general practitioner to need a home visit, two of whom were suffering from depression. Further research is needed to define those who would be expected to need a visit. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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