From: Patient safety in primary care: a survey of general practitioners in the Netherlands
 | Theme | Patient safety judged to be much/very much at risk (%GPs) |
---|---|---|
1. Not keeping one's medical knowledge up-to-date | Knowledge | 42.6% |
2. Poor doctor-patient relationship | Communication | 41.2% |
3. Patient age >75 year | Age | 41.2% |
4. Language barrier between GP and a non-western immigrant | Language barrier | 36.8% |
5. Patient with more than 5 medicaments | Polypharmacy | 33.8% |
6. Patient who 'shops' between different GPs in the same practice | Different GPs | 23.5% |
7. No telephone triage | Triage | 22.1% |
8. Delayed receipt of information about patients from hospital | Lack of information | 17.6% |
9. Patient who frequently comes for medically unexplained complaints | Unexplained complaints | 13.2% |
10. Patient age >70 year | Age | 10.3% |
11. Patient with a chronic disease | Chronic disease | 10.3% |
12. Patient who has consulted more than twice during GP's office hours for the same complaint | Repeat visits | 7.4% |
13. Need to make an emergency visit during regular office hours. | Time pressure | 7.4% |
14. Deviation from guidelines provided by Dutch College of General Practitioners | Evidence based medicine | 2.9% |
15. Lack of privacy at reception or in waiting room | Privacy | 0% |