RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Patient choice in a practice with men and women general practitioners.
JF British Journal of General Practice
JO Br J Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 13
OP 15
VO 40
IS 330
A1 J Graffy
YR 1990
UL http://bjgp.org/content/40/330/13.abstract
AB This study investigated the distribution of workload between men and women doctors in a south London practice. Of 909 attending patients aged 15 years and over, 611 were women and 48% of these consulted a woman doctor. In comparison, only 27% of the 298 men consulted a woman doctor. Twenty nine per cent of the 105 women who gave a reason for choosing a woman doctor said they had done so because of her sex. Multiple logistic regression was used to assess the relative importance of having a general preference for a woman doctor or of consulting about a problem related to sex in predicting the likelihood of a woman consulting a woman doctor. This showed that preference was 2.3 times as important as problem type in predicting this. This suggests that woman's demand for women doctors in general practice extends beyond family planning and well woman clinics. The implications of this for practice organization are discussed.