Summary information

Study title

Patients and Their Doctors, 1964; Old People

Creator

Cartwright, A., Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care

Study number / PID

710 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-710-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The purpose of this study was: to collect data describing the main features of general practice - family, personal, domiciliary and front-line care; to obtain information about the role of the general practitioner as seen by both patients and doctors.
There are ten datasets making up this study:
<i>Main Patients</i> SN:394
<i>General Practitioners</i> SN:704
<i>Depression</i> SN:705
<i>G.P. Consultation</i> SN:706
<i>Out-Patients</i> SN:707
<i>Children</i> SN:708
<i>Mothers</i> SN:709
<i>Old People</i> SN:710
<i>Failure Schedules</i> SN:835
<i>No National Health Service Docotr</i> SN:836
Main Topics:

Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Details of respondent's particular medical problem, consultations made and type of help received, problems of mobility, whether help received from doctors or other social workers, frequency of visits from GP, relative seen most often, frequency of visits from relatives. Method (and ease) of contacting doctor.

Methodology

Data collection period

01/06/1964

Country

England and Wales

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Elderly
Patients
Individuals
Groups
National

Universe

Patients and their doctors in 12 parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales

Sampling procedure

Random for patients, total doctors of patients' sample

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Postal survey
Face-to-face interviews were conducted with patients, and doctors received a postal questionnaire.

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1978

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

Not available