PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Norma V. Raynes
AU  - Victoria Cairns
TI  - Factors contributing to the length of general practice consultations
DP  - 1980 Aug 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 496--498
VI  - 30
IP  - 217
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/30/217/496.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/30/217/496.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1980 Aug 01; 30
AB  - Ten general practitioners in a study of general practice consultations were shown to differ significantly in the time they spent in their consultations. Patient demographic characteristics contributed little to differences in consultation time. Consultations in which (a) there was a diagnosis of psychological disorder, (b) the practitioner and the patients focused attention on psychosocial matters, and (c) psychotropic drugs were prescribed, were found to be associated with increased length of consultation time.