Patients who do not come

How do patients who participate in cancer support groups differ from those who do not?

Research has shown that cancer patients in general benefit from support group participation. However, few patients attend such groups. This study investigated differences between participants of a community cancer support group and a random selection of non-participants from the Cancer Registry. Data were collected through mail survey, and included variables identified through past research and...

Patients who do not receive continuity of care.

BACKGROUND Continuity of care is much valued by general practitioners but little is known about those patients who do not receive continuity of care. AIM This study set out to identify and describe a group of patients who did not receive continuity of care from the general practitioner with whom they were personally registered. METHOD A total of 110 patients (71 female and 39 male) were ide...

Patients with major trauma who do not use emergency ambulances.

Adult smokers who do not smoke daily.

Almost 20% of Californian smokers do not smoke daily. Although occasional (non-daily) smoking occurs during uptake, a stable pattern of occasional smoking may imply a milder level of nicotine addiction. We use a longitudinal population sample of smokers interviewed in both 1990 and 1992 to evaluate the stability of occasional smoking. Further, we use 1992 data, including smokers only interviewe...

Conceiving Time? Women who do or do not conceive.

This article explores the importance of time for an understanding of women's experiences of reproductive identity. In order to do this we draw on data from two separate qualitative research projects. The first project is concerned with the experiences of conception, pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood in primagravidae, whilst the second focuses on the experiences of individuals (especial...