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The Conference For General Practice 2009, Andrew Bonney, Lyn Phillipson, Sandra Jones, Donald Iverson
The Conference For General Practice 2009, Andrew Bonney, Lyn Phillipson, Sandra Jones, Donald Iverson
Don C. Iverson
Objectives The medical literature suggests that older patients may be reluctant to engage general practice registrars in their medical care. This can lead to distortions in the clinical caseload of general practice registrars and dissatisfaction for older patients when seeing general practice registrars. The authors undertook a qualitative study of older patients to investigate their attitudes to having general practice registrars involved in their medical care to address this issue. Methods The study was conducted in three general practice (GP) training practices in southeast NSW, Australia. Appropriate ethics approval was obtained before commencing the research. Reception staff handed patients invitations …