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Summary information

Study title

Patients and Their Doctors, 1964; Out-Patients

Creator

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

Study number / PID

707 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-707-1 (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 illnesses for which respondent had received home visits, number of consultations, initial reason for attendance at outpatients and details of attendance since then. Treatment and tests received during last 12 months, usual length of waiting time (satisfaction), whether appointment usually made, opinion on necessity for hospital visit.

Topics

Health care services and policies

Keywords

ATTITUDESDISEASESHOSPITAL SERVICESMEDICAL CAREHOSPITAL OUTPATIENT SERVICESPHYSICIANS

Methodology

Data collection period

01/06/1964

Country

England and Wales

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

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.

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