These are the contingent and locally specific influences on interactions between practitioners and patients, which may be emergent over time through repeated encounters.
The summit was very successful in fostering new interactions between practitioners, who were asking similar types of questions but in very different fields.
The three interaction levels (interactions between practitioners and caregivers, internal structures and linkages between groups) were found to determine the quality of the practitioner caregiver interface.
Integration will require mechanisms that support ongoing interaction between practitioners and managers throughout health and social care – vertically between generalists and specialists, and horizontally between acute, primary and social care.
Field notes included both the content of answers to the questions in Table 1, as well as details about the environment and interaction between practitioners observed during the visit.
We hypothesise that access to evidence-based knowledge, as expressed in the national guidelines, interaction between practitioners and key community members, and a problem-based planned process of change generated through facilitation support, will speed up the process of practitioners changing their behaviour (cluster level).
Further studies to develop tools assessing de qi based on the practitioner's feeling or senses should be conducted, and for that, various approaches considering the interaction between practitioners and patients and the historical meaning of de qi should be used.
Within recurring interactions between Foresight practitioners and policy-makers it should be possible to jointly translate the outcomes of Foresight processes into political options.
This protocol outlines a hospital-based study examining interactions between healthcare practitioners and their patients who either share or do not share a first language.
Practice setting a construct that includes the interactions between patient, practitioner, environment and other ambient contextual factors—has also been argued to be important for clinical reasoning [ 9, 13].
The need for a close and constant interaction between general practitioners and specialists to monitor the clinical evolution of the disease and to refer patients who do not respond to standard treatment to specific care units cannot be emphasised enough.
