In nonpsychiatric settings, primary care physicians consider 17% of their patients as “difficult,” particularly those who ...
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Mental health and chronic pain patients more likely to be considered 'difficult' by their doctor
A systematic review of 45 studies found that physicians perceive one in six patient visits in non-psychiatric clinics as ...
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How often do physicians encounter 'difficult' patients?
Patient characteristics associated with increased difficulty included personality disorders (relative risk [RR] 2.2, 95% CI 1 ...
Prevalence of difficult encounters among clinic patients was 0.17; characteristics that increased difficulty included depression, chronic pain.
What Do People Affected by Cancer Think About Electronic Health Information Exchange? Results From the 2010 LIVESTRONG Electronic Health Information Exchange Survey and the 2008 Health Information ...
This new questionnaire could help physicians more easily detect sedentary behaviors among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which standard questionnaires have had difficulty ...
Staying calm and respectful can be challenging, but could make all the difference, Elisabeth Mahase hears Michael El Boghdady, senior trainee registrar in general surgery and director of education at ...
A recent review finds that 17% of adult clinical patients are perceived as difficult based on certain physical or psychological conditions.
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