Patient-physician relationship and use of gut feeling in cancer diagnosis in primary care: a cross-sectional survey of patients and their general practitioners.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine whether the quality of the patient-physician relationship, assessed by the general practitioner (GP) and the patient, associates with GPs' use of gut feeling (GF) in cancer diagnosis.

Design

Cross-sectional questionnaire survey of cancer patients and their GPs.

Setting

Danish primary care.

Participants

Newly diagnosed cancer patients and their GPs. Patients completed a questionnaire and provided the name of the GP to whom they have presented their symptoms. The named GP subsequently received a questionnaire.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

GPs' use of GF in the diagnostic process for the particular patient. GPs who answered that they used their GF 'to a high degree' or 'to a very high degree' were categorised as 'used their G

SUBMITTER: Pedersen AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6629394 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature