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Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 22, No. 3, 283-287 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0269215507081577
© 2008 SAGE Publications

Physical limitations and perceived quality of care among family medicine patients

James E Rohrer

200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA, Rohrer.james{at}may.edu

John M Wilkinson

Darryl E Barnes

Steven C Adamson

Objective: To assess how physical limitations relate to patient satisfaction with the quality of medical care among family medicine patients, after adjustment for self-rated overall health and other patient characteristics.

Design: A telephone survey of family medicine patients, linked with information extracted from medical records.

Setting: A large family medicine department in Rochester, Minnesota.

Subjects: Patient ratings of quality were linked to medical records for 674 adult patients.

Results: Adjusting for self-rated overall health status and other confounders using multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that having physical limitations was inversely and independently related to excellent perceived quality (adjusted odds ratio = 0.56, P= 0.035).

Conclusions: In our sample of family medicine patients, people with physical limitations experience a disparity in perceived quality of care.


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