An exploration of the basis for patient complaints about the oldness of magazines in practice waiting rooms: cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the basis for patient complaints about the oldness of most magazines in practice waiting rooms.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

Waiting room of a general practice in Auckland, New Zealand.

Participants

87 magazines stacked into three mixed piles and placed in the waiting room: this included non-gossipy magazines (Time magazine, the Economist, Australian Women's Weekly, National Geographic, BBC History) and gossipy ones (not identified for fear of litigation). Gossipy was defined as having five or more photographs of celebrities on the front cover and most gossipy as having up to 10 such images.

Interventions

The magazines were marked with a unique number on the back cover, placed in three piles in the waiting room, and monitored twice w

SUBMITTER: Arroll B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4263958 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature