Effect of patient completed agenda forms and doctors' education about the agenda on the outcome of consultations: randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the effect of patient completed agenda forms for the consultation and doctors' education on identifying patients' agendas on the outcome of consultations.

Design

Randomised controlled trial.

Setting

General practices in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Participants

46 general practitioners and 976 patients.

Interventions

Education for general practitioners, with an embedded clustered randomised controlled trial of a patient agenda form.

Main outcome measures

Number of problems identified, time required to manage each problem, duration of consultations, number of problems raised after the doctor considered the consultation finished ("by the way" questions), and patient satisfaction.

Results

Data were av

SUBMITTER: Middleton JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1471934 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature