General practitioners' experience and benefits from patient evaluations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It has now for many years been recognised that patient evaluations should be undertaken as an integral part of the complex task of improving the quality of general practice care. Yet little is known about the general practitioners' (GPs') benefit from patient evaluations. Aim 1 was to study the impact on the GPs of a patient evaluation and subsequent feedback of results presented at a plenary session comprising a study guide for the results and group discussions. Aim 2 was to study possible facilitators and barriers to the implementations of the results raised by the patient evaluation process.

Methods

A patient evaluation survey of 597 voluntarily participating GPs was performed by means of the EUROPEP questionnaire. Evaluation results were fed back to the GPs as

SUBMITTER: Heje HN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3217866 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature