We examined differences between patients consulting primary care practices with and without appointment addressing socio-demographic characteristics, reasons for encounter, urgency of seeing a physician, depressive, somatic and anxiety symptoms, personality traits, and satisfaction with the practice in a cross sectional study. Younger age and a high urgency rating by physicians were most consistently associated with the likelihood of being a patient without appointment. Differences between patients seeking general practices without prior notice and with appointments were relatively minor.
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We examined differences between patients consulting primary care practices with and without appointment addressing socio-demographic characteristics, reasons for encounter, urgency of seeing a physician, depressive, somatic and anxiety symptoms, personality traits, and satisfaction with the practice in a cross sectional study. Younger age and a high urgency rating by physicians were most consistently associated with the likelihood of being a patient without appointment. Differences between patie...
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