The Journal of family practice
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Our objective was to understand family practices from the ground up through intensive direct observation of the practice environment and patient care. ⋯ Our multimethod assessment process provided rich data for describing multiple aspects of primary care practice, testing a priori hypotheses, discovering new insights grounded in the actual experience of practice participants, and fostering collaborative practice change.
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Case Reports Comparative Study
The effect of families on the process of outpatient visits in family practice.
Our goal was to describe how physician knowledge of patients' families affects the processes of patient care in family practices. ⋯ Family context is an important feature of family practice that influences the processes of patient care. Since family-oriented care is an essential feature of family practice, outcomes of this largely hidden part of care deserve further study.
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We identified those aspects of physician-patient communication that influence physicians to prescribe antibiotics for respiratory infections. ⋯ Patients strongly influence the antibiotic prescribing of physicians by using a number of different behaviors. To decrease antibiotic use for ART infections, patients should be educated about the dangers and limited benefits of such use, and clinicians should consider appropriate responses to these different patient pressures to prescribe antibiotics.