Sentence examples for measures of consultation from inspiring English sources

Evaluation of any new initiatives should, in our view, include measures of consultation quality from the patients' perspective [ 40, 41].

One RCT reported data (25 ) for 2 measures of consultation for respiratory disease; episodes of lower respiratory tract infection and suspected viral illness (Table 3).

It has been suggested that a combination of the CARE Measure with other measures of consultation quality may be useful in the evaluation and reward of GPs [ 41].

Referral practice is only one means by which to assess quality of care, and future evaluation should consider measures of consultation frequency, use of diagnostic tests, time to referral and to diagnosis, stage at diagnosis and patient experience.

The Leicester Assessment Package (LAP) is an established measure of consultation competence for general practice consultations [ 14].

In addition to the primary measure of consultation rates for respiratory symptoms, data relating to total general practice consultation rates, chest X-ray requests and referrals to respiratory physicians, will also be captured through audit of general practice records.

Patient 'enablement' is a term closely aligned with 'empowerment' and its measurement in a general practice consultation has been operationalised in the widely used patient enablement instrument (PEI), a patient-rated measure of consultation outcome.

We have then compared these views with the ten-item CARE measure, which is a widely used measure of consultation quality in the UK, developed by one of the authors [ 20- 22].

The study has a strong design that incorporates computerised random allocation, blinding of data-collection staff and the use of audio recording as an objective measure of consultation communication.

These three enablement items were derived from the six-item Patient Enablement Instrument [ 26, 27] and were included as a measure of consultation outcome from the patient's perspective.

The aim of the present study was to explore Chinese patients' views on quality of primary care consultations in Hong Kong and to compare these with the items in the CARE measure (a process measure of consultation quality widely used in the UK) in order to assess the potential utility of the CARE measure in a Chinese population.