Nurse management of patients with minor illnesses in general practice: multicentre, randomised controlled trial
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the acceptability and safety of a minor illness service led by practice nurses in general practice. DESIGN: Multicentre, randomised controlled trial. SETTING: 5 general practices in south east London and Kent representing semi-rural, suburban, and urban settings. PARTICIPANTS: 1815 patients requesting and offered same day appointments by receptionists. INTERVENTION: Patients were assigned to treatment by either a specially trained nurse or a general practitioner. Patients seen by a nurse were referred to a general practitioner when appropriate. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The general satisfaction of the patients as measured by the consultation satisfaction questionnaire. Other outcome measures included the length of the consultation, number of prescriptions written, rates of referral to general practitioners, patient's reported health status, patient's anticipated behaviour in seeking health care in future, and number of patients who returned to the surgery, visits to accident and emergency, and out of hours calls to doctors. RESULTS: Patients were very satisfied with both nurses and doctors, but they were significantly more satisfied with their consultations with nurses (mean (SD) score of satisfaction 78.6 (16. 0) of 100 points for nurses v 76.4 (17.8) for doctors; 95% confidence interval for difference between means -4.07 to -0.38). Consultations with nurses took about 10 minutes compared with about 8 minutes for consultations with doctors. Nurses and doctors wrote prescriptions for a similar proportion of patients (nurses 481/736 (65.4%) v doctors 518/816 (63.5%)). 577/790 (73%) patients seen by nurses were managed without any input from doctors. CONCLUSION: Practice nurses seem to offer an effective service for patients with minor illnesses who request same day appointments.
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- Authors
- Shum, C.
- Corresponding author
- Shum, C.
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2000-04-15
- Volume
- 320
- Issue
- 7241
- Pages
- 1038-1043
- ISSN
- 0959-8138 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC27346
- OpenAlex
- W2069875531
- Cited by
- 289
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 54.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Nursing Roles and Practices
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Keywords
- practice nurses, minor illness, nurse-led care, general practice, same-day appointments, patient satisfaction, consultation time, drug prescribing, general practitioner referral, health care utilization
- MeSH terms
- Acute Disease, Adult, England, Family Practice, Female, Humans, Male, Nurse-Patient Relations, Prognosis, Rural Health, Urban Health, Patient Satisfaction
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