TY - JOUR
T1 - General practice care and patients' priorities in Europe
T2 - An international comparison
AU - Wensing, Michel
AU - Mainz, Jan
AU - Ferreira, Pedro
AU - Hearnshaw, Hilary
AU - Hjortdahl, Per
AU - Olesen, Frede
AU - Reis, Shmuel
AU - Ribacke, Mats
AU - Szécsényi, Joachim
AU - Grol, Richard
PY - 1998/9
Y1 - 1998/9
N2 - Insight into patients' priorities with respect to health care should complement the views of professionals and policy makers on what is thought to be appropriate health care. To determine the strengths and weaknesses of general practice care from patients' perspectives written surveys were performed among patients in Denmark, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and United Kingdom (n=3540). The potential quality problems identified were spread over the different countries: the low involvement of general practitioners in out-of-hours services in Portugal; the low provision of routine screening in Sweden, Norway and The Netherlands; the lack of a defined patient population in Germany; the lack of a formal gatekeeper role to secondary care in general practice in Germany and Sweden; and the low number of home visits in Sweden. Copyright (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
AB - Insight into patients' priorities with respect to health care should complement the views of professionals and policy makers on what is thought to be appropriate health care. To determine the strengths and weaknesses of general practice care from patients' perspectives written surveys were performed among patients in Denmark, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and United Kingdom (n=3540). The potential quality problems identified were spread over the different countries: the low involvement of general practitioners in out-of-hours services in Portugal; the low provision of routine screening in Sweden, Norway and The Netherlands; the lack of a defined patient population in Germany; the lack of a formal gatekeeper role to secondary care in general practice in Germany and Sweden; and the low number of home visits in Sweden. Copyright (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
KW - General practice
KW - International comparison
KW - Patient centredness
KW - Patient satisfaction
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U2 - 10.1016/S0168-8510(98)00040-2
DO - 10.1016/S0168-8510(98)00040-2
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C2 - 10338949
AN - SCOPUS:0031784066
SN - 0168-8510
VL - 45
SP - 175
EP - 186
JO - Health Policy
JF - Health Policy
IS - 3
ER -