Other mental-health practitioners attribute teen-age suicide to faster-paced lives, the decline of organized religion, competitiveness at school, the tightening of the job market and, in less affluent families, bleaker prospects for the future.
Christian Science practitioners attributed the boy's illness and his failure to improve to Mrs. Swan's decision to have surgery a few months earlier to remove a cyst - which had failed to respond to faith healing - as well as on a feud she was having with her father.
Some studies suggest that general practitioners attribute failure to test to lack of time, language barriers, or lack of training.
Practitioners attributed this to children either being too young or being sedated, and there being a limited window of opportunity for discussions prior to discharge.
In the beginning, before the etiology was recognized, most general practitioners attributed these illnesses to acute bronchitis or pneumonia and prescribed antibiotics, such as penicillin or streptomycin [ 7].
Meanwhile, the private practitioners attributed their difficulties in TB care to the lack of proper facilities and training in relation to TB diagnosis and treatment.
In Israel Shlomo et al [ 24] found lower education was a predictor of parents' expectations to receive antibiotics for URTIs and in Trinidad, Mohan et al reported that general practitioners attributed antibiotic over-prescribing in general practice to parents' demands [ 25].
26 Attempts were made to include children in our study; however, child's assent was rarely sought in CATCH, which practitioners attributed to there being insufficient time to seek assent or that the children were too young or still sedated for discussions prior to discharge.
Given the trend towards larger practices and part-time working, continuity of care is likely to fall and thus practice-based rather than individual general practitioner attributes and attitudes are likely to become increasingly important.
