Mann R G
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1985 Jan 19;290(6463):209-11. doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6463.209.
Out of the 87 patient participation groups that were known to the National Association for Patient Participation as having been established by the end of 1983, 17 (25%) are not functioning. The general practitioners concerned with these non-functioning groups were interviewed to identify problems that they had had in keeping the group going and to seek possible explanations for the problems. Fourteen of the groups had stopped functioning in part owing to lack of interest by patients. Groups become non-functioning often in the first year of starting up, and this may be because of the nature of the practice population that they seek to represent.
在全国患者参与协会所了解的截至1983年底已成立的87个患者参与小组中，有17个（25%）已不再运作。对与这些不再运作的小组相关的全科医生进行了访谈，以确定他们在维持小组运作方面遇到的问题，并寻找这些问题可能的原因。其中14个小组停止运作部分是由于患者缺乏兴趣。小组往往在成立的第一年就不再运作，这可能是因为它们试图代表的执业人群的性质。
