What factors influence a family physician's decision to refer a patient to a specialist?

GD Iverson, ST Coleridge, KG Fulda… - Rural and remote …, 2005 - search.informit.org
… Introduction: Variability in the referral patterns of primary care physicians is well established.
The obj ective of this study was to determine which factors have the most impact on a family …

The influence of comorbid chronic physical conditions on depression recognition in primary care: a systematic review

M Menear, I Dore, AM Cloutier, L Perrier… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
… widely believed to interfere with primary care providers' ability to … influence of chronic
physical comorbidity burden on depression recognition in routine, community-based primary care

Beliefs and experiences can influence patient participation in handover between primary and secondary care—a qualitative study of patient perspectives

M Flink, G Öhlén, H Hansagi, P Barach… - BMJ quality & …, 2012 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
… Communication between healthcare settings at patient transfers between primary and
secondary care, ‘handover’, is a critical and risky process for patients. Patients’ views on their …

Primary care practice organization influences colorectal cancer screening performance

EM Yano, LM Soban, PH Parkerton… - Health services …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… only national health care system, we explored the contribution of primary care practice-level
determinants of CRC screening variation, controlling for patient and area characteristics. …

Primary care consultations about medically unexplained symptoms: patient presentations and doctor responses that influence the probability of somatic intervention

P Salmon, GM Humphris, A Ring, JC Davies… - Psychosomatic …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… treatment decisions, not because it influences them but because it is … patients or GPs in
the relationships that we found, such relationships represent robust properties of primary care

[HTML][HTML] Influence of language and culture in the primary care of Spanish-speaking Latino adults with poorly controlled diabetes: a qualitative study

CD Zamudio, G Sanchez, A Altschuler… - Ethnicity & …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… factors that influence how Latino patients interact with … language in the primary care of patients
with poorly controlled … effective patient and provider interactions during primary care visits. …

Exploring factors that might influence primary-care provider discussion of and recommendation for prostate and colon cancer screening

CE Kistler, M Vu, A Sutkowi-Hemstreet… - … Journal of General …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
care are possible. Citation57 For example, because we know that patient requests influence
… for providers to address patient requests instead of offering services that are likely to harm …

Preferences of patients for patient centred approach to consultation in primary care: observational study

P Little, H Everitt, I Williamson, G Warner, M Moore… - Bmj, 2001 - bmj.com
… We report on a study of patient preferences for patient centredness in the context of an … a
doctor in primary care. We report the principal domains of patient centredness from the patients' …

The influence of gender on physician practice style

KD Bertakis, LJ Helms, EJ Callahan, R Azari… - Medical care, 1995 - journals.lww.com
… this influence in primary care encounters, 118 male and 132 female adult new patients, …
were randomly assigned to university hospital primary care residents, and their initial encounters …

Do doctors' attachment styles and emotional intelligence influence patients' emotional expressions in primary care consultations? An exploratory study using multilevel …

MG Cherry, I Fletcher, D Berridge… - Patient education and …, 2018 - Elsevier
… in primary care, given that, in the United Kingdom, primary care consultations often represent
patients’ … However, there remains substantial variation in primary care providers’ ability to …