The present study evaluated a consultation-liaison intervention with two objectives: to explore long-term GP opinions (relating to impact on their management and on patient medical outcome) and to determine the secondary referral rate, after a sufficient time lapse following the intervention to reflect a "real-world" primary care setting.
One study evaluated a cancer consultation preparation package (CCPP) designed to facilitate patient involvement in oncology consultations in men and women with different types of cancer [ 29].
A study evaluating a multidisciplinary consultation for frequent attenders found that patients' medical costs and GP visits fell within the 12 months following the intervention [ 40] but did not look at clinical outcomes.
The second core question: how many consultations, and how many raters, do we need to evaluate a particular doctors' consultation skills such that we can differentiate them from their peers?
This exploratory study represents the first attempt to evaluate a team based consultation model in primary care.
A questionnaire, which evaluated the consultation process and included an excel file for collecting institutional data, were delivered to participant centres.
Prior to this study, written and audio versions of both questionnaires were developed in Bengali and Sylheti and evaluated through consultation with a group of Sylheti and Bengali speaking individuals with T2DM attending a diabetes outpatient department in Birmingham, UK [ 14].
Chance nodes for these events were evaluated through consultation with clinical experts.
To date, no studies are available that have evaluated healthcare consultation in teenagers with AP-FGD.
It is possible that those patients who had high expectations concerning their involvement evaluated their consultation and their physician more critically.
One of the principles included in the Institute's Consumer and Community Participation Policy states that "Consumer and community participation, and the Institute's support for participation will be evaluated in consultation with consumers, community members and researchers, and made available to the public" [ 35].
