How do patients respond to safety problems in ambulatory care? Results of a retrospective cross-sectional telephone survey.

Objectives: Patients in German ambulatory care frequently report patient safety problems (PSP). It is unclear whether patients report PSP back to their general practitioner (GP) or specialist in charge. This study reports on how patients respond to experienced PSP.

[Patient safety in ambulatory care: Development and application of a CATI questionnaire (PSP-AMB) to capture patient safety problems from the perspective of patients aged 40 years and older].

Background: The epidemiology of patient safety problems (PSPs) in the German ambulatory care sector is largely unknown. So far, there has been a lack of appropriate survey instruments.

Objective: Development and application of a questionnaire (PSP-AMB), which records the epidemiology of PSP in the ambulatory care sector from the patient's perspective by using computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) on a population sample of ≥40-year-olds.

Patient safety in ambulatory care from the patient's perspective: a retrospective, representative telephone survey.

Objectives: Data on patient safety problems (PSPs) in ambulatory care are scarce. The aim of the study was to record the frequency, type, severity and point of origin of PSPs in ambulatory care in Germany.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Somatic Comorbidity in Chronic Constipation: More Data from the GECCO Study.

. Comorbidity in chronic constipation has rarely been investigated, despite the fact that constipation can occur as one symptom in a number of neurological, systemic, and other nonintestinal and intestinal disorders. .

Prevalence of constipation in the German population - a representative survey (GECCO).

Background: Variable prevalence rates between 2.4 and 35% have been reported for chronic constipation across different countries worldwide, with a low 5% for Germany.

Objectives And Methods: We conducted a computer-assisted telephone interview among 15,002 representative individuals in Germany, asking about health-related problems, including constipation.

Functional Constipation and Constipation-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the General Population: Data from the GECCO Study.

Background. The prevalence of constipation in the (German) population has been shown to be 14.9% in a telephone survey, but more detailed data are required to characterize the sociographics and clinical characteristics of persons with different types of functional constipation, either constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) or functional constipation with or without meeting Rome criteria.