Patient Characteristics Associated with Making Requests during Primary Care Visits

Conclusions:
Primary care physicians should expect a greater frequency of requests from older patients, patients with greater symptoms bother or worry, more extroverted patients, patients with greater global life satisfaction, and patients with whom they have had prior visits.

Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - March 7, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Fenton, J. J., Magnan, E. M., Jerant, A., Kravitz, R. L., Franks, P. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research