Significance of after care by family practitioner following myocardial infarct from the patient's viewpoint
Brunner-La Rocca, H.P.; Marti, B.
Schweizerische Rundschau für Medizin Praxis 82(49): 1406-1412
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 1013-2058 PMID: 8272706 Document Number: 419276
In this study a questionnaire has been sent to 118 male patients about 21 months after the first myocardial infarction. The patients in question have suffered a first acute myocardial infarction in the second half-year of 1987 and have been hospitalized in ten different clinics around Zurich. 80 (72%) of the patients not older than 62 years have answered; 4 patients died. The results indicate that the treatment by the general practitioner has been assessed mostly positively; 63.7% of the patients were very content with the care provided by their general practitioner, 32.5% were rather content and only 3.8% were rather discontent. Only 5% changed to another general practitioner out of discontentment within the mentioned period. 91.2% of the patients taxed the expended time by the general practitioner as just about sufficient. Results concern the influence of the general practitioner on modification of habits after the myocardial infarction: former smokers indicated more often, that the advice of the general practitioner has helped them (p < 0.01), those patients who changed their eating habits talked more often with their physician about this subject (p < 0.05), respective counselling by the general practitioner had an evident influence on the sportive activities of the patients (p < 0.01).