Attributes and antecedents of frequent attendance in health care systems: Comment on Kivel ä et al., 2018

A recent concept analysis of frequent attenders of primary care services published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies by Kivel ä et al. (2018) identifies four key characteristics of frequent attenders of primary healthcare services: 1) the feelings of symptoms, 2) perceived poor health status, 3) lower quality of life, and 4) frequent visits to a primary health care provider. The authors propose antecedents including the p atient’s individual characteristics, the primary health care system, and the patient-physician relationship based on primary research from countries such as UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Israel, Kuweit, and Australia (Kivelä et al., 2018).
Source: International Journal of Nursing Studies - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Letter Source Type: research