Graffy J
Medical College, St Bartholomew's Hospital.
Br J Gen Pract. 1990 Jan;40(330):13-5.
This study investigated the distribution of workload between men and women doctors in a south London practice. Of 909 attending patients aged 15 years and over, 611 were women and 48% of these consulted a woman doctor. In comparison, only 27% of the 298 men consulted a woman doctor. Twenty nine per cent of the 105 women who gave a reason for choosing a woman doctor said they had done so because of her sex. Multiple logistic regression was used to assess the relative importance of having a general preference for a woman doctor or of consulting about a problem related to sex in predicting the likelihood of a woman consulting a woman doctor. This showed that preference was 2.3 times as important as problem type in predicting this. This suggests that woman's demand for women doctors in general practice extends beyond family planning and well woman clinics. The implications of this for practice organization are discussed.
本研究调查了伦敦南部一家诊所中男女医生之间的工作量分布情况。在909名15岁及以上的就诊患者中，611名是女性，其中48%咨询了女医生。相比之下，298名男性中只有27%咨询了女医生。在105名给出选择女医生原因的女性中，29%表示是因为其性别而选择。采用多元逻辑回归来评估在预测女性咨询女医生的可能性时，普遍偏爱女医生或咨询与性别相关问题的相对重要性。结果表明，在预测这一情况时，偏爱程度的重要性是问题类型的2.3倍。这表明，女性在全科医疗中对女医生的需求超出了计划生育和女性健康诊所的范畴。文中讨论了这一情况对诊所组织的影响。
