23 The findings of this review suggest that the use of information leaflets in general practice consultations are effective in reducing antibiotic prescription by GPs, and actual antibiotic use by patients and their intention to reconsult for future similar episodes of illness.
This result suggests that there is a need for ethical consultants, and that an experience in ethical consultation is effective for producing judgments of greater validity in end-of-life care.
The DUE criteria for cefepime were established by applying literature review and expert consultation, an effective method to promote interventions that will improve patient outcomes and the cost-effectiveness of drug therapy.
In a previous qualitative study (GULiVer-I), a series of lay-people derived recommendations ('tips') was listed for doctor and patient on 'How to make medical consultation more effective from the patient's perspective'.
While some research points to the promise of coaching and consultation as effective strategies for improving quality of home-based child care (Bryant et al. 2009), experts caution that only highly manualized and consistent coaching interventions may be effective at changing practice (IOM 2012).
For the field of PI, a joint expert meeting of WHO and the CDC highlighted the importance of stakeholder consultation for effective policy development [ 40], and research projects at both the community level [ 41] and the regional/national level [ 42] have provided empirical evidence for the usefulness of stakeholder involvement.
We find first that multiple tobacco control interventions, particularly taxes on tobacco, advertising restrictions, warning labels, mass media campaigns and GP consultations were cost-effective to very cost-effective.
Furthermore, as a systematic review showed that psychiatric consultation to primary care with a consultation letter is effective for somatoform disorders [ 54], adding the use of such a consultation letter to CC can be useful.
Effective consultations and technical discussions during the design stage with project proponent and relevant government agencies are recommended.
The aim of this paper is to assess whether patient-centred consultations are more effective than the usual style of consultations used by general practitioners with patients suffering from benign chronic musculoskeletal pain and fibromyalgia.
