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Study on doctor shopping behavior: Insight from patients with upper respiratory tract infection in Taiwan
Ming-Jye Wang,Shu-Ping Lin +1 more
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Investigation of patients' healthcare seeking behavior and doctor shopping behavior and the impact on the depletion of the healthcare resources for health policy makers to build a better health delivery system found health education to raise DSB awareness is necessary, especially for female's age 18-34 years.About:
This article is published in Health Policy.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 58 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ambulatory care & Health care.read more
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Underuse of Primary Care in China: The Scale, Causes, and Solutions
Dan Wu,Tai Pong Lam +1 more
TL;DR: Immediate measures need to be taken to improve the changing trend of primary care utilization in China, including taking irrational hospital expansion under strict control through enhancing the government's accountability for health care industry regulation.
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Doctor shopping: a phenomenon of many themes.
Randy A. Sansone,Lori A Sansone +1 more
TL;DR: Being aware of these various patient justifications for doctor shopping is important in understanding and managing these challenging patients in the clinical setting, whether they emerge in psychiatric or primary care environments.
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A Pay-For-Performance Program In Taiwan Improved Care For Some Diabetes Patients, But Doctors May Have Excluded Sicker Ones
TL;DR: Taiwan's pay-for-performance program did sharply improve quality of care for enrolled patients, but at the same time, only a minority of the nation's patients with diabetes were enrolled, because the program's design encouraged physicians not to enroll their most complicated patients.
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Continuity of care, potentially inappropriate medication, and health care outcomes among the elderly: Evidence from a longitudinal analysis in Taiwan
TL;DR: Patients with the best COC were less likely to receive drugs that should be avoided or duplicated medication and it was indicated that potentially inappropriate medication was a partial mediator in the association between COC and health care outcomes and expenses.
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Attitudes toward inter-hospital electronic patient record exchange: discrepancies among physicians, medical record staff, and patients
TL;DR: Investigating the attitudes of users toward the inter-hospital EPR exchange system implemented nationwide and focused on discrepant behavioral intentions among three user groups found that the patients highly agreed with privacy protection by their consent and support for EPRs, whereas the physicians remained conservative toward both.
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A framework for the study of access to medical care.
Lu Ann Aday,Ronald M. Andersen +1 more
TL;DR: Indicators are suggested for the measurement of the various relevant aspects of access, with the system and population descriptors seen as process indicators and utilization and satisfaction as outcome indicators in a theoretical model of the access concept.
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Disability and depression among high utilizers of health-care - a longitudinal analysis
TL;DR: It is concluded that depression and disability showed synchrony in change over time and provides a rationale for randomized controlled trials of depression treatments among depressed and disabled medical patients to determine whether psychiatric intervention might improve functional status in such patients.
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Children's health care use: a prospective investigation of factors related to care-seeking.
TL;DR: This study supports prior research indicating past use is the best predictor of future health care use and suggests that maternal perceptions of child health and maternal emotional functioning influence the decision-making process involved in seeking health care on behalf of children.
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey : 2003 summary
TL;DR: Physician estimates revealed that primary care physicians were twice as likely as specialists to make home visits during an average week of work; when they conducted them, they made twice as many (6 versus 2-3 visits per week) as specialists.
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Issues underlying prevalence of "doctor-shopping" behavior.
TL;DR: Factors related to tendency to shop for doctors in both upper-and lower-income groups were a lack of confidence in doctors' competence, unwillingness of doctors to spend time talking with patients, hostile feelings toward doctors, high cost of services, inconvenience of location and hours, and unfavorable attitudes toward doctors' personal qualities.