Doctor and practice characteristics associated with differences in patient evaluations of general practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Variation in patients' evaluation due to general practitioner (GP) and practice factors may provide information useful in a quality improvement context. However, the extent to which differences in patients' evaluation of the GPs are associated with differences in GP and practice characteristics must also be ascertained in order to facilitate comparison of adjusted patient evaluations between GPs. The aim of this study was to determine such associations in a setting where GPs serve a list of patients and act as gatekeepers.

Methods

We carried out a patient evaluation survey among voluntarily participating GPs using the EUROPEP questionnaire, which produced 28,260 patient evaluations (response rate 77.3%) of 365 GPs. In our analyses we compared the prevalence of pos

SUBMITTER: Heje HN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1855053 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature