Publications by authors named "Marie Deom"
Background: Work satisfaction of doctors is a useful indicator of the functioning of the health-care system. We documented the work satisfaction of doctors nine years apart, before and after the implementation of several health-care reforms (limitation of working hours for medical trainees, restrictions on new doctors' offices, new reimbursement fee schedule, greater administrative controls).
Methods: Two surveys of all doctors working in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland (1998: 1146 respondents, 2007: 1546 respondents).
Background: How doctors perceive managed care tools and incentives is not well known. We assessed doctors' opinions about the expected impact of eight managed care tools on quality of care, control of health care costs, professional autonomy and relations with patients.
Methods: Mail survey of doctors (N = 1546) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Background: The probability of a disease following a diagnostic test depends on the sensitivity and specificity of the test, but also on the prevalence of the disease in the population of interest (or pre-test probability). How physicians use this information is not well known.
Objective: To assess whether physicians correctly estimate post-test probability according to various levels of prevalence and explore this skill across respondent groups.
Objective: To identify characteristics of clinical research projects that influence patients' willingness to participate in research.
Study Design And Setting: We surveyed all patients discharged during 1 month from a Swiss public teaching hospital. We described four hypothetical studies and asked patients whether they would agree to participate.