Parents have been reported to leave consultations feeling uncertain, with insufficient information about diagnosis and treatment options [ 4, 5].
12 Parents also report that they leave consultations feeling they have insufficient information about their child's illness.
Unfortunately, for technical and postal reasons, videotapes from 13 of the consultations were lost, thus leaving 62 consultations to constitute the core sample investigated in this study.
12 39 Patients leaving the consultation thinking of gout as an intermittent, acute condition, clearly has implications for their subsequent behaviour and perceptions of the need for ULT.
In the sampling period (the first six months), a nurse measured consultation time, and asked every fifth patient who met the inclusion criteria if they were willing to repeat their given advice after leaving the consultation with the GP.
Upon leaving the consultation room, the patient will then be asked for their consent to participate in the exit interview in a quiet location within the facility, at distance from providers and from other patients.
Leaving during consultation hours is problematic and if the visit can be delayed into lunchtime or after hours, the question arises if it would not be equally justifiable for the patient to contact a hospital ambulance.
15 Moreover, we found in our study, that even when patients entered the consultation with question lists, they often left the consultation without having asked the questions they came prepared for.
At the conclusion of the consultation the GP filled out their side of the post-consultation form and passed it to the patient, who left the consultation, filled in the PEI section, and sealed both forms in the provided envelope for return to the researchers or practice reception.
Although it also announced it would be carrying out a number of consultations — leaving the full details of the reform tbc.
