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01.01.2007 | Original Article

The Effect of Patients’ Met Expectations on Consultation Outcomes. A Study with Family Medicine Residents

verfasst von: Roger Ruiz-Moral, Luis Ángel Pérula de Torres, Inmaculada Jaramillo-Martin

Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Ausgabe 1/2007

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Abstract

Objectives

To know the patients’ expectations and the fulfillment of these at family medicine consultations by resident doctors and to assess their effect on some consultation outcomes.

Design

A prospective cohort study.

Participants

Patients attending family medicine consultations held by 38 resident doctors: 1,301 eligible patients, 702 filled in all questionnaires.

Measurements

Before each visit, the patients’ expectations about that particular consultation were registered. Right after the visit was over, their perception of several aspects of the communicative interaction with the doctor was measured. Later, patients were interviewed on the phone to know how their expectations had been fulfilled, how satisfied they were about the consultation, how they had followed the doctor’s suggestions, if they were going to seek further care for the same cause later, and the evolution of their clinical problem. Logistic regression was the main analysis used.

Results

The most common expectations were the doctor showing interest and listening (30.5%), getting some information about the diagnosis (16.3%), and sharing problems and doubts (11.1%). The rate of main expectations that were met was 76.5%. Satisfaction with the encounter was associated with the clinical evolution [odds ratio (OR) 2.23; confidence interval (CI): 1.32–3.75], and the fulfilling of the patients’ main or two main expectations was significantly related to all the measured outcomes (satisfaction OR 3.51, CI: 1.73–7.8; adherence OR 1.80, CI: 1.11–2.92; clinical evolution OR 1.54, CI: 1.01–2.35; and seeking further care later OR 0.54, CI:0.36–0.81)

Conclusions

Patients prioritize expectations of a more general sort when they attend primary care consultations and residents fulfill these acceptably. The fulfillment of expectations seems to affect the studied outcomes more than other factors.

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Titel: The Effect of Patients’ Met Expectations on Consultation Outcomes. A Study with Family Medicine Residents
verfasst von: Roger Ruiz-Moral
Luis Ángel Pérula de Torres
Inmaculada Jaramillo-Martin
Publikationsdatum: 01.01.2007
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Ausgabe 1/2007
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Elektronische ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-007-0113-8

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