Preventive medicine in general practice: an evaluation of the consultations of ten general practitioners.

These enquiries are shown in Table I. Table I Type and Frequency of Patient-Initiated Prevention Patient-Initiated Prevention Number Enquiry about blood pressure 12 Advice re weight, diet or exercise 9 Family planning 7 Request for a screening procedure 5 Advice re smoking 3 Lifestyle/stress 2 Immunisation 2 Accident avoidance 1 Alcohol 1 Total 42 The patient-initiated prevention was increasingly sought from manual through to professional classes, although this trend did not reach statistical significance.

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