A Practice Brochure: Complement to, Not Supplement for, Good Physician-Patient Interaction

The practice brochure: a patient's guide to team care.

A practice brochure describing the primary health care team was given to 262 new and established patients in a group practice. Most liked it, and thought it helpful, and improved their knowledge of team care. When asked how they would respond to certain hypothetical health problems and clinical situations, there was a significantly greater use of non-doctor members of the team than by a matched...

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Good health starts with healthy behaviour (Brochure)

Micronutrients: to supplement, or not to supplement?

Tell a smoker to eat a carrot a day and he'll keep the doctor away, but give him regular beta-carotene supplements — the major antioxidant nutrient found in carrots — and you may increase his risk of developing lung cancer. Why? Doctors aren't entirely sure what the difference is between dietary intake and micronutrient supplementa-tion, but they do know that any diet – cancer association is fa...

Physician-elder interaction in community family practice.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether outpatient visits by elders seeing community family physicians differ in length or content from visits by younger patients; socioemotional preferences predict visit content; and satisfaction correlates with visit content differentially across age. METHODS In a multimethod cross-sectional study of 84 community family practices in northeastern Ohio, 3453 adult pat...