Why patients do not attend for their appointments at a genetics clinic

The HBM has been applied to a variety of health behaviours, such as breast cancer screening practices. 5 6 9 Patients' beliefs about the personal costs of medical clinic visits have also been shown to affect appointment keeping rates. 10 The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) ge...

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Published in:Journal of medical genetics 2000-10, Vol.37 (10), p.810-815
Main Authors: HUMPHREYS, L, HUNTER, A G W, ZIMAK, A, O'BRIEN, A, KORNELUK, Y, CAPPELLI, M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Appointments and Schedules
Attitude
Behavior
Canada
Chi-Square Distribution
Child Care
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Clinics
Costs
Data collection
Demography
Education
Families & family life
Female
Genetic Counseling - economics
Genetic Counseling - psychology
Genetic Counseling - statistics & numerical data
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genetic Testing - economics
Genetic Testing - psychology
Genetic Testing - statistics & numerical data
Genetics
Health Care Surveys
Hospitals
Humans
Letters to the Editor
Male
Marital Status
Maternal Age
Parents - education
Parents - psychology
Patient Dropouts - psychology
Patient Dropouts - statistics & numerical data
Pregnancy
Pregnancy, High-Risk
Questionnaires
Referral and Consultation
Social Class
Socioeconomic factors
Studies
Telephone
Treatment Refusal
Work Schedule Tolerance
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Summary:The HBM has been applied to a variety of health behaviours, such as breast cancer screening practices. 5 6 9 Patients' beliefs about the personal costs of medical clinic visits have also been shown to affect appointment keeping rates. 10 The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) genetics clinic provides diagnostic and counselling services to patients of all ages, including routine advanced maternal age (AMA) counselling, personal or family history of known genetic disease, and the assessment of subjects whose condition is of unknown cause. [...]approximately half of the surveyed genetics clinics provided estimated as opposed to actual rates of non-attendance.
ISSN:0022-2593
1468-6244
1468-6244
DOI:10.1136/jmg.37.10.810