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BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization encourages the development of youth friendly services, yet little is known on how youth currently present in general practice. OBJECTIVE: To describe the perspectives, expectations, and service receipt of…
BACKGROUND: As an increasing number of patients with chronic conditions of childhood survive to adulthood, experts recommend that young adults with chronic conditions transfer from child-focused to adult-focused primary care. Little, however, is…
BACKGROUND: Language barriers complicate physician-patient communication and adversely affect healthcare quality. Research suggests that physicians underuse interpreters despite evidence of benefits and even when services are readily available. The…
BACKGROUND: Commentators have suggested that patients may understand quantitative information about treatment benefits better when they are presented as numbers needed to treat (NNT) rather than as absolute or relative risk reductions. OBJECTIVE: To…
Objective: To evaluate primary care and specialist physicians' satisfaction with interphysician communication and to identify the major problems in the current referral process. Design: Surveys were mailed to providers to determine satisfaction with…
The relation between the timing of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders and the cost of medical care is not well understood. This prospective observational study compares hospital costs and length of stay of 265 terminally ill patients with admission DNR…
