Objective: To investigate patients' agendas before consultation and to assess which aspects
of agendas are voiced in the consultation and the effects of unvoiced agendas on outcomes…

Mishler (The discourse of medicine. The dialectics of medical interviews. Norwood, NJ:
Ablex), applying Habermas's theory of Communicative Action to medical encounters, showed …

Objectives: To identify and describe misunderstandings between patients and doctors
associated with prescribing decisions in general practice. Design: Qualitative study. Setting: 20 …

The traditional paternalistic model of medical decision-making, in which doctors make decisions
on behalf of their patients, has increasingly come to be seen as outdated. Moreover, the …

In this study of the influences affecting general practitioners' decisions whether or not to
prescribe, 69 principals and five trainees in general practice were asked about the factors that …

OBJECTIVE--To explore the discomfort experienced by general practitioners in relation to
decisions about whether or not to prescribe. DESIGN--Focused interviews of general …

Objective: To explore consultants9 and general practitioners9 perceptions of the factors that
influence their decisions to introduce new drugs into their clinical practice. Design: …

Purpose Medication error is a significant source of morbidity and mortality among patients.
Clinical and cost‐effectiveness evidence are required for the implementation of quality of care …

This article describes the critical incident technique and offers practical guidance on how the
technique can be used to investigate dilemmas in medicine. It extols the particular virtue of …

Background Multimorbidity, the presence of two or more chronic conditions, affects over 60
% of patients in primary care. Due to its association with polypharmacy, the development of …