Background: Opinions are frequently expressed in the medical literature whether patients
should be addressed by their first or last names, but few supportive data are available. Our …

OBJECTIVE--To assess the acceptability to patients of the use of patients' first names by
doctors and doctors' first names by patients in general practice. DESIGN--An administered …

METHODS The study surveyed consecutive patients, who were at least 16 years of age,
seen in three clinical settings: a private family physician's office, a health maintenance …

A survey was carried out in the Geriatric Unit at Cork Regional Hospital to determine how
elderly patients would like to be addressed by their doctor. Two hundred patients over the …

This brief report determines whether patients admitted to a large teaching hospital knew the
name of their caretaker (physician or nurse) and whether emphasis on patients' awareness …

Objectives To investigate how patients prefer to be addressed by healthcare providers and
to assess their knowledge of their attending medical team's identity in an Australian Hospital …

This study's objective was to examine the extent to which individuals exhibit a preference for
physicians based upon the race/ethnicity and gender of a physician's name. We conducted …

Clinical & Scientific letters Page 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR © Royal College of Physicians,
2009. All rights reserved. 633 would be able to attend. In order to make this a reality, it requires …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Time-honored terminology is being replaced in the managed care era.
Patients are now clients, customers, and health care consumers. Physicians and doctors are …

METHOD Two fourteen-bed units dedicated to the care of adult cancer patients within a
large teaching hospital were chosen for the study. On unit A, eight attending physicians …