Table 5.

Patient Categories Evolving From Qualitative Research

Category	Emphasis on Tasks	Emphasis on Relationship
Needs	More frequent telephone contact	More frequent home visits
	Preferably patient initiated	Preferably physician initiated
	Explicit request	Implicit request
Purposes	Primarily tasks	Mainly support
	Prescribing	Listening
	Assessing relatives	Being there
	Organizing	Showing commitment
Motives	Primarily in terms of function	Mainly in terms of emotion
	Physician’s task	Having emotional bond
	For future management	Knowing the patient
Assessment	Expressed as importance	Expressed as appreciation
	Beneficial	Kind
	Profitable	Nice