One should note, however, that given the structure of the DES model, indicators of accessibility and productivity in Table 2 are related - for example, if each GP provides a higher level of consultations, not only his/her productivity increases, but also accessibility as measured by waiting times for consultations is expected to decrease.
Brazil was successful in that it ensured transparency firstly, by guaranteeing a high level of public consultation, and secondly, by documenting processes which were accessible on the internet.
Deraas TS, Berntsen GR, Hasvold T, et al. Is a high level of general practitioner consultations associated with low outpatients specialist clinic use?
Most chronic pain patients show a pattern of repeated consultations with primary care doctors and high levels of multiple consultations in the hopes of finding the one who will solve the problem.
There was a high level of agreement between the different consultations in terms of priority issues and topics for research (box 5).
The overall detrimental effect was so intense that community nurses required ongoing counselling and psychology consultation for high level of stress, anxiety and depression.
However, in a subgroup of patients, high levels of healthcare consultations were noted already long before the diagnosis of neck injury Given the expected heterogeneity of the patient category, our aim was to study health care consultation patterns before and after neck injury with the patients' pre-injury consultation frequency in mind.
Video consultations require a high level of organisation, special technical conditions, and financial investment.
Empirical research shows that rapport can be positively reflected by a high level of synchrony in monitoring doctor and patient's heart rates during psychotherapy consultations [20].
Focusing on consultations with a diabetes Read Code would have resulted in a high level of data attrition.
