McKinstry B
Ashgrove Health Centre, Blackburn, West Lothian.
BMJ. 1990 Oct 6;301(6755):795-6. doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6755.795.
To assess the acceptability to patients of the use of patients' first names by doctors and doctors' first names by patients in general practice.
An administered questionnaire survey.
5 General practices in Lothian.
475 Patients consulting 30 general practitioners.
Response by patients to questionnaire on attitude to use of first names.
Most of the patients either liked (223) or did not mind (175) being called by their first names. Only 77 disliked it, most of whom were aged over 65. Most patients (324) did not, however, want to call the doctor by his or her first name.
General practitioners should consider using patients' first names more often, particularly with younger patients.
评估在全科医疗中患者对于医生直呼其名以及患者直呼医生名字的接受程度。
一项问卷调查。
洛锡安地区的5家全科诊所。
475名咨询30位全科医生的患者。
患者对关于直呼名字态度的问卷的回复。
大多数患者(223名)喜欢或(175名)不介意被直呼其名。只有77名患者不喜欢,其中大多数年龄超过65岁。然而,大多数患者(324名)不想直呼医生的名字。
全科医生应考虑更频繁地直呼患者名字,尤其是对于年轻患者。