Das Gesundheitswesen
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Das Gesundheitswesen · May 2003
Comparative Study[Turkish and German patients of general practitioners--diseases, drug expectations and drug prescriptions].
to assess the diseases and complaints and the concepts for treatment of patients and drug prescriptions relative to their ethnic origin: Turkish immigrants (T) or German citizens (D). ⋯ The treatment concept of Turkish patients is more directed to drugs. They request a drug more intensively and are more convinced of the medicaments' effectiveness than German patients are. In spite of this, physicians give a prescription according to the indication of the patient independent of his ethnic origin. The insistence on a prescription is significantly higher in Turkish than in German patients.