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Article: Patient-physician agreement on reasons for ambulatory general medical examinations
- Article from:
- Mayo Clinic Proceedings
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Feb 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Objective: To evaluate the physician's ability to identify patients' reasons for visits (RFVs) for a general medical examination (GME), to assess predictors of agreement between patient and physician on the RFV, and to determine whether agreement about the RFVs was associated with patient satisfaction with the visit.
Design: We conducted a prospective study involving patients scheduled for a GME and internists in a multispecialty group practice.
Material and Methods: Patient-physician agreement on the RFV was independently assessed by two internists. Logistic regression was used to identify predictors of low agreement.
Results: The 458 patients reported a total of 848 RFVs for their GME. ...