Consultation time was dependent on the type of ISP case, but waiting time was not.
Consultation time is dependent on many factors: the physicians themselves [ 17], the patients, the reasons for the visit, the relationship between the physician and the patient, organizational and other.
Longer consultation time was dependent on the characteristics of patients (female gender, higher age, higher level of education, change of GP within the last year, number of health problems); physicians and the organization of their work (higher age, absence of high workload); and type of visit (all visits with consultation and/or clinical examination).
Even though guideline specifications were continuously integrated into the working procedures in regular quality circles of the IPC, consultation quality still remains dependent on the knowledge and conversation techniques of the consultant.
That gradually grew, to the point where she was so accustomed to getting her own way that she became overconfident; less and less dependent on consultation with colleagues, more and more dependent on a narrow circle.
Probability of consultation was itself highly dependent on the source of the sample (Table 3).
With regard to triptan use, not only was this highly dependent on consultation with a physician but also the proportions using triptans were greater in those seeing specialists (mean 51.3%) than in those treated by GPs (mean 35.9%; chi-squared = 62.1; p < 0.001) (Fig. 1).
Besides the impact of pre-existing systems, consultation cost is highly dependent on the number of patient visits per CHW.
On the patient level, bias may be expected as the patients fill out the questionnaires in the hospital/ambulatory immediately after the consultation and may feel dependent on or committed to their physicians.
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