Doctor or nurse? The patients' choice
A M Read, J F Mayberry
Leicester General
Hospital NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
Correspondence to: Miss Alison Read, Churchview, Crockwell Street, Long Compton, Warwickshire CV36 5JN, UK
Submitted 29 December
1998;
Accepted 8 October 1999
This project's aim was to assess patients perceived need for a
specialist nurse in inflammatory bowel disease. A letter was sent to 64 patients with a summary of the potential role of a specialist nurse.
Patients were asked to complete a questionnaire of 10 scenarios on who
would be their preferred provider on the range of issues. There were 35 (55%) replies. When comparing the results between the consultant and
the specialist nurse patients preferred to see a specialist nurse
significantly in four scenarios, and patients preferred to see the
consultant significantly in two scenarios. The results indicate that
patients feel specialist nurses would have more time to discuss issues
and they do not want to bother the busy doctors with them. But they do
want doctors to carry out the medical aspects of their care.
Keywords: specialist nurse; inflammatory bowel disease; patients' preferred care provider
© 2000 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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