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Factors associated with GPs’ knowledge of their patients’ socio-economic circumstances: a multilevel analysis

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  • Virginie Ringa

    (Epidémiologie, démographie, sciences sociales (U822) - INED - Institut national d'études démographiques - UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale)

  • Géraldine Bloy

    (LEDi - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dijon - UB - Université de Bourgogne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Hector Falcoff

    (UPD5 Médecine - Université Paris Descartes - Faculté de Médecine - UPD5 - Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5, Société de Formation Thérapeutique du Généraliste)

  • Laurent Rigal

    (CESP - Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 - AP-HP - Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) - Hôpital Paul Brousse - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INED - Institut national d'études démographiques)

Abstract

Background. To determine appropriate management for individual patients, GPs are supposed to use their knowledge of the patient's socio-economic circumstances. Objective. To analyse factors associated with GPs' knowledge of these circumstances. Methods. Observational survey of GPs who were internship supervisors in the Paris metropolitan area. Each of 52 volunteer GPs completed a self-administered questionnaire about their own characteristics and randomly selected 70 patients from their patient list. Their knowledge was analysed as the agreement between the patients' and GPs' responses to questions about the patients' socio-economic characteristics in questionnaires completed by both groups. The association between agreement and the GPs' characteristics was analysed with a multilevel model adjusted for age, sex and the duration of the GP-patient relationship. Results. Agreement varied according to the socio-economic characteristics considered (from 51% to 90%) and between GPs. Globally, the GPs overestimated their patients' socio-economic level. GP characteristics associated with better agreement were sex (female), long consultations, the use of paper records or an automatic reminder system and participation in continuing medical education and in meetings to discuss difficult cases. Conclusion. Knowledge of some patient characteristics, such as their complementary health insurance coverage or perceived financial situation, should be improved because their overestimation may lead to care that is too expensive and thus result in the patients' abandonment of the treatment. Besides determining ways to help GPs to organize their work more effectively, it is important to study methods to help doctors identify their patients' social-economic circumstances more accurately in daily practice.

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  • Virginie Ringa & Géraldine Bloy & Hector Falcoff & Laurent Rigal, 2015. "Factors associated with GPs’ knowledge of their patients’ socio-economic circumstances: a multilevel analysis," Post-Print halshs-01226440, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01226440
    DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmv068
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    1. Estelle Carde, 2019. "When Social Inequalities Produce “Difficult Patients†: A Qualitative Exploration of Physicians’ Views," SAGE Open, , vol. 9(4), pages 21582440198, December.

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