In 2004 Liddell and Davidson [ 10] published the use of a questionnaire measuring medical students' attitudes towards five groups of consultation skills, one of which was communication skills.
One single item, "to be relieved of cancer concerns", was rated significantly higher by the SPs in the POP subgroup compared with the corresponding group of consultations (n = 45) (F = 7.378, p = 0.009).
The DIF analysis found that items were invariant for patients with different characteristics including gender, age, diagnosis groups, number of consultations and survey year.
It is the result of many years of discussion in the group and of consultations with experts in the field, on the way to bring together industrial expectations and visionary extrapolation and current status of technology.
Conservation groups have stormed out of consultations with the NSW government over an overhaul of land-clearing laws they say have been a sham and will fast-track bushland destruction in the state.
Other physician groups with high frequencies of consultations and/or problems were found in oncology, orthopaedic, psychiatric, pain management, and rheumatologic clinics.
[ 15] Dharmar et al. also compared medication errors in groups of children who received telemedicine consultations, telephone consultations or no consultation.
Following the process of consultations, group of national experts, coordinated by professor Marina Ajdukovic and with support from professor Bradshaw, will propose a set of indicators that are expected to be fully adopted by the end of this year.
36 Interestingly, in the high-frequent group, the mean number of consultations due to mental disorders decreased while the mean number of consultations due to musculoskeletal disorders increased.
