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- Title
Practice Settings and Prescribing Profiles: The Simulation of Tension Headaches to General Practitioners Working in Different Practice Settings in the Montreal Area.
- Authors
Renaud, Marc; Beauchemin, Jean; Lalonde, Carole; Poirier, Hélène; Berthiaume, Sylvie
- Abstract
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine whether physicians practicing in one type of setting manage a medical problem differently than those practicing in another type of setting. The investigation took the form of presenting physicians with a simulated case of tension headache with a history going back three years, for which diazepam had been taken daily for the past year. Four simulated patients (aged 20-23) visited a stratified random sample of 111 general practitioners practicing in health centers funded by government (CLSCs) and in private group practice clinics in the Montreal area. Fifty-one percent of group practice physicians recommended therapy rated as "inadequate" compared to 25 per ¢ in CLSCs; in addition, the data show significant differences between CLSC and group practice physicians in performing various aspects of the clinical examination. Alternative explanations for the observed differences are discussed.
- Subjects
MONTREAL (Quebec); QUEBEC (Province); TENSION headache; GENERAL practitioners; SIMULATION methods &; models; THERAPEUTICS; MEDICAL practice; MEDICAL history taking; MEDICAL records
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1980, Vol 70, Issue 10, p1068
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.70.10.1068