However, only a small proportion of variability can be explained by the patient's age [ 20], which means that other factors, such as the number of health problems [ 18], the characteristics of the health problems, and the "physician's speed" are more important predictors of consultation time [ 23].
Under some important circumstances, the majority of patients balanced speed of access against the perceived benefits of consultation with a known and trusted GP.
Extremes are labelled as '1 = poor' and '5 = excellent' on evaluations of different aspects of care: Communication, the GP listening to patients, time spent in consultations, and speed of response in cases of urgent problems.
That is, even after controlling for difference in length of consultation, patient's and doctor's speech speed, and consultation style, the reported experience of care were more positive among patients who were seen by doctors who had the same ethnicity, as compared to those who did not share the same ethnicity category.
The use of electronic referrals and online consultations accelerates the speed of communication and facilitates the logistics.
Five weeks of consultation end on Friday.
headache was the first reason for neurological consultation; it represented 25% of all causes of consultation.
Two rounds of expert consultation were conducted to check and correct the data of consultation forms.
One former planning officer said many felt there was a lack of consultation by the Welsh government during the writing of TAN 8. Iwan Evans, a former planning officer with Gwynedd council, remembered the Welsh government pushing it through at speed.
Degree of satisfaction correlated closely with frequency of consultation.
