Prescribing behaviour in clinical practice: patients' expectations and doctors' perceptions of patients' expectations a questionnaire study
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Prescribing and referral in general practice: a study of patients' expectations and doctors' actions.
BACKGROUND What decisions do patients expect the general practitioner to take within the consultation and to what extent are these expectations fulfilled? What factors influence patients' expectations and general practitioners' actions? AIM This study aimed to examine these questions with reference to prescribing and hospital referral. METHOD The study covered 1080 consultations with 12 gen...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7107.520