Patients and Their Doctors, 1964; Children

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was: to collect data describing the main features of general practice - family, personal, domiciliary and front-line care; to obtain information about the role of the general practitioner as seen by both patients and doctors. There are ten datasets making up this study: <i>Main Patients</i> SN:394 <i>General Practitioners</i> SN:704 <i>Depression</i> SN:705 <i>G.P. Consultation</i> SN:706 <i>Out-Patients</i> SN:707 <i>Children</i> SN:708 <i>Mothers</i> SN:709 <i>Old People</i> SN:710 <i>Failure Schedules</i> SN:835 <i>No National Health Service Docotr</i> SN:836

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Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Number of consultations with GP in last 12 months, number of home visits/visits to outpatients, examinations by school doctors or clinics during last 12 months, whether immunised against diphtheria or vaccinated against smallpox. Background Variables Age, sex, birth order.

Random for patients, total doctors of patients' sample

Face-to-face interview

Postal survey

Face-to-face interviews were conducted with patients, and doctors received a postal questionnaire.

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-708-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=668e321984010781d45565355dd0f9d5b71051c6bd2eb2faa1d644d65ea44a53
Provenance
Creator Cartwright, A., Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1978
Funding Reference Department of Health and Social Security
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Language English
Discipline Social Sciences
Spatial Coverage England and Wales