Physician-Patient Relationship and Medication Compliance: A Primary Care Investigation

The patient-physician relationship, primary care attributes, and preventive services.

BACKGROUND The importance of a sustained relationship between patients and physicians is a defining characteristic of family medicine. This study examined whether there is an association among the length of the patient-physician relationship, various attributes of primary care, and the delivery of clinical preventive services to Medicare beneficiaries. METHODS The data source for this study w...

Primary medication adherence in a rural population: the role of the patient-physician relationship and satisfaction with care.

INTRODUCTION Although correlates of overall medication adherence have been studied, little is known about primary medication non-adherence-patients' failing to fill a prescription provided by a practitioner-and whether it relates to how patients view their physician, satisfaction with their care, and how easy or hard it is for them to travel for care. METHODS This study uses telephone survey ...

THE PATIENT-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP A Study of Patient Clues and Physician Responses in Primary Care and Surgical Settings

PHYSICIAN: MORE OFTEN THAN not, I will keep patients in after a pacemaker is placed, at least overnight, in order to make certain that the pacemaker is functioning properly. Patient: Dr Smith told me it’d be 2 days. Physician: Frequently it is 2 days, but as I say, at least overnight. Patient: I’m alone. Physician: And the routine goes like this. We get you to the OR and then we. . . . In the a...

Managed care and the physician/patient relationship.

Association of race consciousness with the patient-physician relationship, medication adherence, and blood pressure in urban primary care patients.

BACKGROUND Race consciousness (the frequency with which one thinks about his or her own race) is a measure that may be useful in assessing whether racial discrimination negatively impacts blood pressure (BP). However, the relation between race consciousness and BP has yet to be empirically tested, especially within the context of the patient-physician relationship and medication adherence. ME...