Research Article TheMissing Evaluation at the End of GP’s Consultation

Copyright © 2013 Maisa Kuusela et al.is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Evaluation at the end of a consultation is an element of a successful encounter. e doctor should inquire if patient’s expectations were ful�lled and sum up the information given, the examinations performed, and the decisions made with the patient. is way the patient would be fully aware of what has been decided and that the problems and expectations of the patient had been taken into account. Twenty consultations of four general practitioners (GPs) in Finland were videotaped. e doctors were men and women, two of them had a long experience and two were trainees in general practice.e data (videotapes, questionnaires, and interviews) were analysed by multiple research methods with investigator and methodological triangulation. MAAS-Global Rating List was used as an assessment tool. e evaluation of the consultation was oen missing or having shortages; only one-third was assessed to be better than doubtful. e assessments done by experienced GPs and the medical student were similar. According to the result of this study as well as the information in the current literature, doctors in all periods of their career should repeatedly be reminde