Causes of a dysfunctional consultation
Causes of a dysfunctional consultation
After a consultation or sometimes during a consultation it becomes apparent that the consultation has not or is not going well. This may be manifest by the patient being upset, you being upset or you having that feeling that you have not engaged the patient or understood or addressed their ideas concerns or expectations.
Other signs of a problem with patient-doctor communication
Poor PSQ feedback
Poor reputation among patients
Upset patients
Increasing complaints
Increasing critical events
Reduced job satisfaction
Causes of poor patient – doctor communication
Patient factors
• Hearing or linguistic difficulties
• Upset patients
• Psychiatric illness
• Intoxication
• Loss of faith in the doctor (poor reputation, adverse incident etc)
• Patients that ‘violate’ the doctors values e.g. drug misusers or alcoholics
• Problem Patients (Groves classification: Dependant clinger, manipulative self help rejecter, self destructive denier or entitled demander)
Doctor factors
• Attitudes – a doctor centred consulter, burnt out depersonalisation, angry, defensive, ‘over caring’- always wanting to be liked or hard-line doctors.
• Poor emotional housekeeping.
• Skills – poor consultation or clinical skills resulting in an inappropriate management plan.
• Knowledge – lack of knowledge leading to an inappropriate or suboptimal management plan.
• Bored –lack of personal or professional development.
Patient – doctor factors
• Cultural issues
• Failure to identify hidden agendas.
• Failure to identify the patients fears, beliefs or expectations.
• Failure to generate a management plan appropriate to the patient’s circumstances.
Practice factors
• Pressure of time – running late.
• Poor systems (e.g. telephone access, appointments, admin) which result in patients starting the consultation frustrated or cross.
• Poor staffing, inappropriate skill mix etc which unnecessarily increase workload.
• Unnecessary interruptions – telephone, staff, patients.
• Physical factors - lay out of the room, lighting, extraneous noise.
If you find that you are having a number of unsatisfactory consultations or a poor PSQ outcome then you need to reflect on the causes, as often it is multi factorial and requires a variety of appropriate interventions.
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