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Family Practice Advance Access originally published online on October 1, 2004
Family Practice 2004 21(6):706; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh602
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Family Practice Vol. 21, No. 6 © Oxford University Press 2004, all rights reserved.

Correspondence

Patient consent rates for video-recording

Heidi-Ingrid Maaroos, Heli Tähepõld and Ruth Kalda

Department of Family Medicine, Tartu University, Ülikooli 18, Tartu 50090, Estonia

Email: heidi-ingrid.maaroos{at}ut.ee

We read with great interest the article by Neal et al.1 about consent rates for video-recording general practice consultations. In Estonia we have very good experience regarding this topic and we therefore would like to stress an important factor, which probably affects consent rates.

A video consultation study was conducted in Estonia within the framework of the EUROCOMMUNICATION II Study.2 The total study sample consisted of 405 consultation video-tapes obtained from 27 family doctors. The patients were not informed about the study before their appointment. Prior to each consultation, the patients completed a form of informed consent. They were informed about the study and agreed to the video-recording performed by an investigator. The consent rate in our study was 98% and only 10 (2%) of all patients refused to participate. The procedure allowed the given consent to be withdrawn within 5 days after video-recording, in which case the investigator was responsible for the destruction of the recording. In Estonia, no withdrawals were registered after the video-recording. Among the video-recorded patients, 240 (59 %) were women and 165 (41%) were men. In our study, the patient consent rate was remarkably high.3 We consider that the high participation rate can be explained primarily by the personal doctor system as all patients in Estonia are registered in personal doctors' lists. Patients agree to participate when their own doctor encourages them to do so.

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1 Neal RD, Ali N, Allgar V, Coleman T. Consent rates for video-recording general practice consultations: effect of ethnicity and other factors. Family Practice 2004; 21:

2 van den Brink-Muinen A, van Dulmen AM, Bensing JM, Maaroos HI, Tähepõld H. Eurocommunication II. A Comparative Study Between Countries in Central and Western Europe on Doctor–Patient Communication in General Practice. Final Report. Nivel, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2003.

3 Tähepõld H, Maaroos HI, Kalda R, van den Brink-Muinen A. Structure and duration of consultations in Estonian family practice. Scand J Prim Health Care 2003; 21: 167–170.[Medline]


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