Data was also collected on the location of consultation, stage of cancer and a simplified Karnofsky performance status score.
Instead, other environmental factors such as the convenience of a clinic's location and consultation times often played a deciding role when shopping for and choosing a primary care doctor [ 31].
[P12] In addition to suitable and convenient locations, doctors' consultation times were another crucial element in participants' doctor shopping behavior.
To investigate the possibility of encounters in the hospital, timing and location of consultations and hospitalizations were determined by review of the patients' medical charts and the outpatient clinic's schedule.
The four experimental variables for implementation were: 1) location of the consultation, 2) integrated with regular consultation or not, 3) number of ultrasound machines and 4) discipline of the screener.
(FG2-V1)" The pharmacists were very conscious of the need to provide undisturbed consultations, which raised further issues around workflow, privacy and location of the consultation.
The proposals were not formed on the basis of any individual business case for a single location and our consultation is continuing".
Patients are coded by serial number with their sex, age, source of referral, date of consultation, location of consultation, symptoms and risk factors.
For this study, we used a simple measure of health-seeking behaviour, i.e., the type of healthcare facility that was the initial location of healthcare consultation.
Structural characteristics of practices include practice location, practice type, consultation patterns, gender, and the number of years since graduation as a proxy for physicians' experience.
