Factors affecting the documentation of spoken safety-netting advice in routine GP consultations: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies have reported how often safety-netting is documented in medical records, but it is not known how this compares with what is verbalised and what factors might influence the consistency of documentation.

Aim

To compare spoken and documented safety-netting advice and to explore factors associated with documentation.

Design and setting

A cross-sectional study, using an existing GP consultations archive.

Method

Observational coding involving classifying and quantifying medical record entries and comparison with spoken safety-netting advice in 295 video-/audio-recorded consultations. Associations were tested using logistic regression.

Results

Two-thirds of consultations (192/295) contained spoken safety-netting advice that applied t

SUBMITTER: Edwards PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8436774 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature