TY  - JOUR
T1  - ORganization section
Y1  - 1939/09/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800360051017
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1037
EP  - 1040
VL  - 113
IS  - 11
N2  - LOST PATIENTS FROM AN OUTPATIENT CLINIC 
    A STUDY IN COOPERATIVENESS OF PATIENTSHORACE GRAY, M.D., AND MARGARET CURTIS, R.N.SAN FRANCISCOIn these days of agitation over adequate medical care it is no less than just to insist that, within the economic level locally accepted in outpatient clinics, medical care be both expert (so far as humanly possible in a grade A medical school today), and extremely cheap to the patient (at a generous financial deficit to the university) and by contrast to analyze the willingness of patients to avail themselves of their opportunities. The present evidence is based on outpatients but probably holds also for many private patients.From this clinic evidence has been published to the effect that (1) among patients with diabetes who missed  appointments the proportion of those presumably recoverable but not recovered amounted to the discouraging value of 55 per cent1 and (2) among
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800360051017
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800360051017
ER  -