UNSPECIFIED. (1998) Accounts of disagreements with doctors. SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, 46 (1). pp. 119-129. ISSN 0277-9536

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Abstract

Patients' perceptions of health care, particularly as they relate to disagreements of various kinds, have emerged as a particular topic of interest to practitioners and social scientists since the mid-1980s in Great Britain. Most research, however, has concentrated upon disagreements that have turned into formal complaints to health authorities and community and hospital trusts. This means that the focus has been upon the strong end of disagreements where action has already been taken to redress a grievance. This is likely to leave many aspects of the relationship between felt disagreement and disagreement action unexplored. Why, for example, when they feel dissatisfied with the health care that they, or a relative has received, do some people take action and others not? And, if they do take action, what is involved? Are there any associations between the kind of action taken-for example, doing nothing, verbally challenging the doctor, seeking a second opinion, or discontinuing treatment-and the nature of the felt disagreement, the kind of health problem being treated, or the social characteristics of the patient concerned? In this paper we explore some of these questions through data collected as part of a community sample of individuals in the West of Scotland. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences
Journal or Publication Title:	SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Publisher:	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
ISSN:	0277-9536
Official Date:	January 1998
Dates:	Date Event January 1998 UNSPECIFIED
Volume:	46
Number:	1
Number of Pages:	11
Page Range:	pp. 119-129
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/16110

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