Patients' characteristics determine consultation length
Characteristics of patients have as much effect on consultation length
as the characteristics of doctors and doctors' country of practice
combined. Deveugele and colleagues (p 472) compared the results of
videotaped consultations in six European countries with known
determinants of consultation length. Consultation length varied from
country to country and was influenced by patients' sex and age and the
number of problems discussed. Women with psychosocial problems
consulting general practitioners in urban practices had longer
consultations than other patients.
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