Public involvement in modernising genitourinary medicine clinics: using general public and patient opinion to influence models of service delivery.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine which of the options available to modernise genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics in the UK are most acceptable to patients and potential patients; to assess whether the views of a general population sample differ from those of clinic attenders. .

Methods

A questionnaire was used to explore the acceptability of different ways of delivering sexual healthcare including the potential trade-off between convenience/range of services with cost/staffing constraints. Potential differences in responses by age, sex, ethnicity and current attendance at a GUM clinic were evaluated using multivariate analysis.

Results

542 respondents in the community and 202 clinic attenders provided responses. Delivery of sexual healthcare by specialist nurses and general p

SUBMITTER: Ross JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2563868 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature