Direct access from general practice to transvaginal ultrasound for early detection of ovarian cancer: a feasibility study.

Objective: To investigate the feasibility of providing general practitioners (GPs) direct and fast referral access to transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS).

Design: A prospective cohort study.

Setting: A total of 232 Danish general practices in parts of the Central Denmark Region.

Histological outcomes in HPV-screened elderly women in Denmark.

Introduction: Danish women exit cervical cancer screening at age 65 years, but 23% of cervical cancer cases occur beyond this age. In addition, due to gradual implementation of cervical cancer screening, older women are underscreened by today´s standards. A one-time screening with HPV test was therefore offered to Danish women born before 1948.

HPV-prevalence in elderly women in Denmark.

Aim: In countries like Denmark, cervical cancer incidence is at present relatively high in elderly women, while routine screening stops at age 65 years. On this background, all women aged 69 and above were invited to human papillomavirus (HPV)-screening in Denmark in 2017.

Methods: Women were identified from the Central Population Register and personally invited by digital or ordinary mail to have a screening sample taken by their general practitioner.

Ovarian cancer suspicion, urgent referral and time to diagnosis in Danish general practice: a population-based study.

Background: Ovarian cancer (OC) survival rates are lower in Denmark than in countries with similar health care. Prolonged time to diagnosis could be a contributing factor. The Danish cancer patient pathway (CPP) for OC was introduced in 2009.

General practitioners' experience and benefits from patient evaluations.

Background: It has now for many years been recognised that patient evaluations should be undertaken as an integral part of the complex task of improving the quality of general practice care. Yet little is known about the general practitioners' (GPs') benefit from patient evaluations. Aim 1 was to study the impact on the GPs of a patient evaluation and subsequent feedback of results presented at a plenary session comprising a study guide for the results and group discussions.

[Patients' assessment of general practitioners. Association with type of practice].

Introduction: This study aimed to examine if and how the patients' assessment of their general practitioner (GP) was associated with the organization of the practice, the number of listed patients and the number of staff members.

Material And Methods: A survey among patients registered with the participating GPs assessing 23 aspects of the GP-patient relationship, medical care, information and support, organisation of care and accessibility. Analysis of the associations between the assessments and practice characteristics was performed.

[Patients' assessment of their general practitioners--the significance of physician gender and age].

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to examine to which extent the patients' assessment of their general practitioner was associated which the gender and age of the physician.

Material And Methods: A survey among patients registered with the GPs assessing 23 aspects of the GP-patient relationship, medical care, information and support, organisation of care and accessibility. Analyses of associations between the assessments and the gender and age of the physicians.

[Patients' assessment of their general practitioners--the significance of patient characteristics. General results from the DanPEP--part I].

Introduction: Patients' experiences constitute a significant part of the quality assessment of general practice care. The aim of the present study was to examine the patients' assessment of their general practitioners (GPs) and to determine to which extent the assessments were associated with patient characteristics.

Material And Methods: A survey among patients registered with the participating GPs assessing 23 aspects of the GP-patient relationship, medical care, information and support, organisation of care and accessibility.

[Patient evaluation of health care].

Quality improvement in health care should include patient evaluations. Patient evaluation is a relevant instrument for assessing those aspects of care which are significant for the patient's experience of quality and for assessing courses of treatment. The striving for 100% satisfaction should be balanced by the regard for quality viewed from a professional and an organizational perspective.

Association between patients' recommendation of their GP and their evaluation of the GP.

Objective: Patient priorities and patient evaluations indicate that accessibility should receive more attention to increase quality in general practice. The definition of family medicine emphasizes the patient-centred approach, communication skills, continuity, and clinical skills. We aimed to explore the associations between the 23 items in the Europep questionnaire measuring patient evaluation of general practice and the patients' recommendation of their general practitioner (GP) to friends and to study the relationship of these items with the core competences of family medicine.

Data quality and confirmatory factor analysis of the Danish EUROPEP questionnaire on patient evaluation of general practice.

Objective: The Danish version of the 23-item EUROPEP questionnaire measuring patient evaluation of general practice has not been evaluated with regard to psychometric properties. This study aimed to assess data quality and internal consistency and to validate the proposed factorial structure.

Setting: General practice in Denmark.

Patient characteristics associated with differences in patients' evaluation of their general practitioner.

Background: Knowledge of the extent to which patient characteristics are systematically associated with variation in patient evaluations will enable us to adjust for differences between practice populations and thereby compare GPs. Whether this is appropriate depends on the purpose for which the patient evaluation was conducted. Associations between evaluations and patient characteristics may reflect gaps in the quality of care or may be due to inherent characteristics of the patients.

Doctor and practice characteristics associated with differences in patient evaluations of general practice.

Background: Variation in patients' evaluation due to general practitioner (GP) and practice factors may provide information useful in a quality improvement context. However, the extent to which differences in patients' evaluation of the GPs are associated with differences in GP and practice characteristics must also be ascertained in order to facilitate comparison of adjusted patient evaluations between GPs. The aim of this study was to determine such associations in a setting where GPs serve a list of patients and act as gatekeepers.

A cluster-randomized trial of the significance of a reminder procedure in a patient evaluation survey in general practice.

Objective: . To determine whether adding a reminder procedure to the personal handing out of questionnaires to patients by general practitioners (GPs) in a patient evaluation survey added further information to the study and whether this influenced the results of the evaluations fed back to the GPs.

Design: Patient evaluation survey in general practice.

[Patients' evaluations as quality measurements in general practice].

Patients' evaluations have several functions as quality measurements: A general judgement of the quality of the health care system and a direct assessment of defined aspects of service and care. In this article the concept of patient satisfaction and the application of patients' evaluations on quality improvement in the health care system is discussed. Despite many attempts to formulate an explanatory theory about the matter, a useful theoretical basis for the concept of satisfaction is still missing.