Verbal and Physical Prescriptions in General Practice Consultations
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A body of work has focused on consultations between general practitioners (GPs) and patients.1–3 Often, however, little attention has been paid to ascertaining how information is transmitted between doctor and patient or where information transfer fits into the consultation. This work comes from preliminary observation of filmed data taken of patient–GP consultations collected as part of the PRODIGY project.a The authors examined consultations from a sample of 140 consultations.
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