Drawing on community consultations indicating that stigma was a priority BD research area, the CREST.BD (Michalak et al. 2012) team implemented a targeted community engagement event on stigma, including focus groups to discuss definitions, experiences, and subjective impact of stigma as well as to discuss possible stigma reduction interventions.
Nevertheless, the mean ORS score for the PCOMS group followed the predicted score during the consultations, indicating that this group had good progress during treatment [ 30].
GPs experiences with short consultations indicate that they feel they are able to give useful treatment for depression, despite time pressure [ 5].
Nevertheless, studies of patient oncologist consultations indicate that such communication is the exception rather than the rule (Pollak et al, 2007; Hack et al, 2010; Rodriguez et al, 2010), prompting calls for more communication training for oncologists.
Stakeholder consultation indicated that this is also a significant issue for healthcare providers in Australia, with one stakeholder stating that, "Security always trumps health" (General Practitioner, stakeholder consultation).
Analysis of the consultation linked to this interview indicated that, at the start of this consultation, the doctor was aware of the bone marrow results, but not the MRD results.
Certainly previous research and the result of our own consultation indicates that the public would value a quality indicator based on residents' outcomes [ 30] but this raises the issue of who would be responsible for collecting the data and making it public.
Intergroup analysis did not reveal any significant difference between the 2 groups when comparing the data of the initial consultation and the final consultation, indicating that both treatments had a similar or equal effect.
The association with low functional capacity and specialist consultation indicates that patients receiving TENS were highly affected by LBP.
Some men described attending a weight management programme after their WMS consultation, indicating that concerns about their weight were in line with a clinical judgement about the same issue.
