"We are not going to focus on individual cancer patients or something of the like".
[GP7] For most GPs I think it is 30 drugs that cover 90% of your patients or something.
However, they also indicated that it was not always possible to know what these were: For most GPs I think it is 30 drugs that cover 90% of your patients or something.
This could be staff travel, patient transport, or something that could affect the day-to-day running of the hospital.
The previous paper system did not support continuity of care or feedback, for example, "Before we don't know any feedback about the patient but now I refer one patient suspecting bronchiolitis or something after one hour I can open the cerner(EMR) and I can see what they did for him" (FG1).
For example, the 2006 paper by Scutt et al. [ 2] received wide coverage [ 3] and was instantly available for any interested patients or clinicians – something that is much more difficult for articles published in subscription based journals.
The individualised nature of IHC makes it difficult to know which component of the intervention is exerting the main effect - the combination of the therapies, the extra attention, the patient-practitioner relationship or something else not considered.> For the purposes of research, IHC is a therapeutic strategy not a single drug intervention.
"Probably most of us (doctors) can give a patient information about lifestyle or something like that but the patient does what he wants" (PL,M,44).
Because they sometimes feel pressure from patients who want drugs (or something) to help their infant or child, doctors need to warn parents that many drugs have not yet been adequately tested for safety and efficacy for children.
(Female GP, 4 years of experience as a GP) I have not experienced much conflict when it comes to saying "no", maybe because we manage to rationalise it so that it becomes reasonable to say "yes", i.e. you refer a patient for a CT scan, or something like that, even though it is obvious to you that medically the patient doesn't need it.
