Questions pertaining to patient adherence and provider roles are part of the classical
repertoires in sociological and health services research. While extensive research …

How family doctors conceptualise chronic illness in the consultation has important
implications for both the delivery of medical care, and its experience by patients. In this …

INTRODUCTION: To better understand barriers to glycaemic control from the patient's
perspective. METHODS: An interpretative phenomenological approach was used to study …

Background Most studies of shared decisionmaking focus on acute treatment or screening
decisionmaking encounters, yet a significant proportion of primary care is concerned with …

As a framework for organising health care interactions, compliance and adherence have
come in for increasing criticism in recent years. It has been suggested that interactions with …

Patient involvement in decision-making is widely regarded as an important feature of good-
quality healthcare. Policy-makers have been particularly concerned to ensure that patients …

In recent years the formerly quite strong interest in patient compliance has been questioned
for being too paternalistic and oriented towards overly narrow biomedical goals as the basis …

This paper explores the sociological relevance of demanding encounters between doctors
and patients. Borrowing from Potter and McKinlay's [(2005). From a relationship to …

Objective To examine patients' perceptions and experiences over time of the devolvement of
diabetes care/reviews from secondary to primary healthcare settings. Design Repeat in …

PURPOSE We sought to explore general practitioners' satisfaction with their patient visits
and the congruity between this satisfaction and new models of practice, such as those …