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Disruptive behavior between physicians and nurses occurs frequently and negatively effects patient outcomes, says new research conducted by VHA Inc. More than three quarters (86 percent) of nurses who participated [...]

editorial comment At last, the controversial star ratings system for hospitals has been scrapped, and, for most, it is not a moment too soon. Putting their stifling bureaucracy and tendency [...]

Nine out of 10 GPs believe that patients do not know how to use out-of-hours services and almost a fifth of patients admit to this, according to a poll by [...]

Patients want the medical profession to show them more respect, particularly if they are older than their GP, according to NHS Confederation chief executive Gill Morgan. She suspects that patients [...]

Patients want to be treated like informed consumers, a survey by charity the Picker Institute Europe has found. Results from 8,000 patients in eight European countries, including the UK, found [...]

Physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes characterize adolescence, the period during which a child is transformed into an adult. It is known that more adolescents are sexually active now than in [...]

Patients with arthritis are reluctant to seek their doctor's advice about their symptoms, according to the results of a survey. Nearly 50 per cent of people in the UK with [...]

European Union patient groups say their members do not trust doctors and pharmacists to give satisfactory information on prescription drugs. Some 35 per cent of EU patients do not always [...]

Duluth, GA--Satisfied customers are the best source of new contact lens patients, according to 80% of more than 500 eye care professionals who responded to an e-mail survey conducted by [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- When giving bad news, it is more important to appear competent and knowledgeable than empathic, Patricia A. Parker, Ph.D., said at the annual meeting of the American [...]

Although cardiovascular disease will develop in 63% of patients with diabetes mellitus, only 33% are aware of the possibility of this serious complication, according to a survey conducted for the [...]

* OBJECTIVE We wanted to determine the weight management experiences of patients in primary care, and what those patients want from their physicians. * STUDY DESIGN Patients completed a survey [...]

* OBJECTIVE Our goal was to identify the prevalence, determinants of, and barriers to clinician-patient communication about intimate partner abuse. * STUDY DESIGN We conducted telephone interviews with a random [...]

Objective To identify patient's preferences for patient centred consultation in general practice. Design Questionnaire study. Setting Consecutive patients in the waiting room of three doctors' surgeries. Main outcome measures Key [...]

The patient should be the judge of patient centred care Key messages about patient centred care can be drawn from the paper by Little et al in this issue of [...]

EDITOR--Misunderstandings between patients and their doctors have featured in several recent papers in the BMJ.[1-4] At Gloucestershire Royal Hospital we completed an outpatient study of 100 parents or carers (after [...]

Objective To determine patients' preferences for a shared or directed style of consultation in the decision making part of the general practice consultation. Design Structured interview, with video vignettes of [...]

NEW ORLEANS - Teenagers and their parents want physicians to talk about risk behaviors during well-child visits. Many physicians think that talking about risk behaviors--alcohol and drug use, sex, diet, [...]

Objective To investigate patients' agendas before consultation and to assess which aspects of agendas are voiced in the consultation and the effects of unvoiced agendas on outcomes. Design Qualitative study. [...]

Objective Comparison of reporting of recent epileptic seizures by patients to a doctor and anonymously. Design Cross sectional study of patients with epilepsy by comparison of paired questionnaires. Setting Rural [...]

A confidential survey mailed to 169 internists around the country found that most would support deception of a third-party payer to provide warranted care for patients; however, physician support declined [...]

A survey of NHS patients confirms that they want fast and convenient health services. The survey, promised in the government's white paper The NHS: Modern, Dependable, published in 1997, was [...]

A new study finds that Blacks say when it comes to doctors involving patients in decisions about their care and interacting with them, White doctors treat them worse. The study, [...]

Patients actually do listen when physicians tell them to eat right and exercise more, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a 1997 telephone survey of 20,847 [...]

Articles about primary care topics that measure patient-oriented outcomes (eg, morbidity, mortality, quality of life) should change practice, if the reported results are valid. We call these types of articles [...]

A survey of 282 general practitioners in England found that 48% believe that they should be allowed to have sex with a patient if that patient finds another family doctor, [...]

Orthopedic surgeons certainly have a loyal following. Results of a survey have found that patients undergoing a spinal fusion or joint replacement procedure trust their surgeons to choose the best [...]

Introduction: Consultation methods differ between medical practitioners depending on the individual setting. However, the central tenet to the doctor-patient relationship is the issue of confidentiality. This prospective survey highlights patient attitudes towards consultation methods in the setting of an ophthalmic outpatient department. Method: Questionnaires were completed by 100 consecutive patients, who had been seen by an ophthalmologist in a single room, which had a joint doctor-patient consultation occurring simultaneously. Results: Each question of all 100 questionnaires was completed. 58% of patients were not concerned about sharing a consultation room with another patient or doctor. However, this did not equate to the 49% of patients who were indifferent to discussing issues in the joint consultation room. The most common factor was the general issue of confidentiality. Discussion: Ensuring total patient confidentiality may be deemed more necessary far certain medical specialties than far others, as seen in the practice of separate medical records in genitourinary medicine, for instance. However, with regard to patient consultations, the same level of confidentiality should be afforded across all specialties, and such factors should be borne in mind when planning outpatient clinics.