Objective: To implement a programme for involvement of older patients aged 70+ in general practice, and to detect quality changes after its implementation.
Methods: The study was performed in 11 European countries as an uncontrolled before-and-after study, in which a number of GPs and patients answered a questionnaire before and after receiving an intervention. The intervention was aimed at motivating, instructing and facilitating GPs and older patients to increase patient involvement during consultation by use of a specially designed consultation leaflet.
Background: Elderly patients' interaction with the GP may be improved through patient involvement techniques, and there is a variety of such techniques which improve patients' involvement in their own care, although little is known about their acceptability.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify barriers and facilitators for using patient information leaflets and patient satisfaction questionnaires as methods for increasing elderly patients' involvement in general practice care by comparing their views with the GPs' views on these two types of methods.
Methods: In seven countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Switzerland) 146 GPs and 284 patients aged 70 and over were interviewed about the use and the acceptability of these two methods.
Scand J Prim Health Care
September 2004
Objective: To describe the occurrence of "health realists", "health pessimists" and "health optimists" in a non-patient population by identifying cases of concordance and discordance between doctor-evaluated health and self-evaluated health and to describe the distribution of selected life-style-related physiological risk factors among these health-groups.
Design: Comparative study.
Setting: Primary health care.
Involvement of older patients in general practice care is regarded as important, but is not widespread. To determine specific barriers to the involvement of older patients in general practice care and to identify variations between countries, we performed an international comparative study based on qualitative interviews with 233 general practitioners (GPs) in 11 countries. Most GPs thought that involving older patients had positive outcomes.
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