Clinical Background of Attendance by Patient's Family during Home Medical Care Visits

Kimura, Takuma; Imanaga, Teruhiko; Matsuzaki, Makoto; Akahoshi, Tohru

doi:10.14442/jgfm.16.4_271

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“…The data sources for this study were medical records and completed questionnaires consisting of 53 questions, 15,16 a subset of which were analyzed in the current study. Information on basic patient characteristics was collected from the medical records, while information on patient background, family background, the caregiving situation, and doctors' medical interviewing skills were obtained from the questionnaires.…”

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Families’ Sense of Discrepancy between the Explanations of Group Practice Doctors Providing Home Medical Care: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Background: Group practices with multiple physicians are preferred for promoting home medical care, but the explanations to patients and families given by the visiting doctors may differ. That could sometimes lead to confusion in patients and families. Methods: We conducted a cross‐sectional mail survey of families of Japanese patients who had previously received home medical care. Multivariable adjusted logistic regression for families' sense of discrepancy between the explanations by doctors in a group practice was performed using eleven explanatory variables including: (1) number of doctors; (2) interval between the doctors' visits; (3) duration of the doctor's stay; (4) doctors' frequent use of technical terminology; (5) doctors' interruption of family's talking, etc. Results: Among 271 families who were mailed surveys, 227 responded (83.8%). The final sample for the analyses was 139. Responses were divided into two groups: families who had experienced a sense of discrepancy about explanations by different doctors (“Experienced”, 30 families, 21.6%) and those who had not (“Non‐experienced”, 109 families, 78.4%). Families' sense of discrepancy between the explanations by doctors in group practice was significantly associated with a longer time interval between doctors' visits (OR: 1.103, 95% CI: 1.008–1.208, p = 0.03) and doctors interrupting families while they were talking (OR: 2.559, 95% CI: 1.166–5.615, p = 0.02). Conclusions: Visiting doctors need to understand that families may have a sense of discrepancy about explanations given by different doctors. This sense of discrepancy was associated with less frequent doctors' visits and doctors' interrupting families while they are talking.

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confidence: 99%