Patients' preferences for patient centred approach to consultation

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7301.1544

BMJ 2001;322:1544 ( 23 June )

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Patients' preferences for patient centred approach to consultation

What is patient centredness?

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EDITOR $---$ Little et al's study seems to show patients' overwhelming preference for a patient centred approach to consultationin primary care.¹ The issue is not so much whether most patientsagree that, for example, they "want the doctor to understand [their]main reason for coming" as whether a desire for the contrary wouldrepresent a belief in some other kind of approach to the consultationor just be plain odd. In other words, what kind of person couldpossibly say, and be thought rational, "I don't want the doctorto understand my main reason for coming"?

I invite readers to review the questionnaire, putting the opposite case in this way and asking themselves how many of thequestions are of this type: "I don't want the doctor to be friendlyand approachable," "I don't want the doctor to find out how seriousmy problem is," and so on. They . . . [Full text of this article]

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