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Katherine L. Kahn, MD; Robert J. Goldberg, PhD; Diana DeCosimo, MD; James E. Dalen, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1988;148(11):2433-2436.

Abstract
• Studying the health maintenance attitudes and behaviors of physicians (MDs) as patients provides information about health maintenance care in a group of individuals where preventive care might flourish. The present study reports the results of a survey of such attitudes and behaviors among 144 university-based MDs and 283 nonphysician doctoral faculty members (non-MDs) from two area universities regarding their personal health maintenance care in 1983. Respondents who reported having a personal MD (44% MDs, 74% non-MDs) were twice as likely to believe they should visit a physician regularly for health maintenance and three times as likely to actually visit a physician for health maintenance as those respondents without a personal physician. Both MDs and non-MDs described the need to visit the doctor more often than they actually reported doing so for health maintenance. However, MDs more often than non-MDs reported receiving the particular health maintenance procedures that are generally considered to constitute essential health maintenance care. A better understanding of health maintenance care by MDs and their non-MD colleagues provides insights into the use and misuse of clinical procedures in the asymptomatic adult.

(Arch Intern Med 1988;148:2433-2436)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA School of Medicine (Dr Kahn); and the Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester (Drs Goldberg, DeCosimo, and Dalen).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 7, 1988.

Reprint requests to UCLA School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, B-537 Factor Bldg, Center for Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (Dr Kahn).

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