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Do longer consultations improve the management of psychological problems in general practice? A systematic literature review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, May 2007
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Title
Do longer consultations improve the management of psychological problems in general practice? A systematic literature review
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, May 2007
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-7-71
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Authors

Catherine Hutton, Jane Gunn

Abstract

Psychological problems present a huge burden of illness in our community and GPs are the main providers of care. There is evidence that longer consultations in general practice are associated with improved quality of care; but this needs to be balanced against the fact that doctor time is a limited resource and longer consultations may lead to reduced access to health care. The aim of this research was to conduct a systematic literature review to determine whether management of psychological problems in general practice is associated with an increased consultation length and to explore whether longer consultations are associated with better health outcomes for patients with psychological problems.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Ecuador 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 117 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 22%
Researcher 22 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 12%
Other 11 9%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Other 23 18%
Unknown 17 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 52 42%
Psychology 17 14%
Social Sciences 10 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 6%
Computer Science 4 3%
Other 15 12%
Unknown 20 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 December 2019.
All research outputs
#6,296,030
of 24,820,264 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,800
of 8,394 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,393
of 80,173 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#12
of 20 outputs
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