Communication in general practice: differences between European countries
| Autor: | L. Oppizzi, Nicola Mead, Michael Peltenburg, A. Perez, M Deveugele, Ottomar Bahrs, V. Messerli, F. Leiva-Fernandez, A. van den Brink-Muinen, Peter F. M. Verhaak, Linda Gask, Jozien M. Bensing |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Future studies education MEDLINE Patient characteristics Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Gatekeeping Physician-Patient Relations Primary Health Care business.industry 030503 health policy & services Communication Health services research Middle Aged Gaze 3. Good health Europe Family medicine Health Care Surveys General practice Sociale Wetenschappen Female Health Services Research 0305 other medical science business Family Practice Psychosocial |
| Zdroj: | Family Practice, 20(4), 478. Oxford University Press |
| Popis: | Based on differences in national health care system characteristics such as the gatekeeping role of GPs (at the macrolevel) and on diverging GP and patient characteristics (at the microlevel), communication may differ between countries. Knowledge of the influence of these characteristics on doctor-patient communication will be important for setting European health care policies.Our objectives were (i) to compare doctor-patient communication in general practice between European countries; and (ii) to investigate the influence of the gatekeeping system and GP and patient characteristics on doctor-patient communication in general practice.Fifteen patients per GP (in total 2825 patients) of 190 GPs in six European countries were included. Participating countries were The Netherlands, Spain, the UK (gatekeeping countries), Belgium, Germany and Switzerland (non-gatekeeping countries). Data were collected by means of patient and GP questionnaires and observation of videotaped consultations, and analysed by one-way and multilevel, multivariate analysis.Differences in communication between countries were found in: affective and instrumental behaviour; biomedical and psychosocial talk; GPs' patient-directed gaze; and consultation length. The study showed that GPs' gatekeeping role (with registered patients) was less important for doctor-patient communication than was expected. Patient characteristics such as gender, age, having psychosocial problems, and familiarity between the doctor and the patient were the most important in explaining differences in communication.The gatekeeping role of GPs is hardly important in explaining doctor-patient communication. The relationship is more complex than expected. Patient and GP characteristics are more important. Cultural factors should be included in future studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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