An appointment system service for general practitioners: its growth and present usage.

An appointment system service for general practitioners: its growth and present usage.

This paper provides an analysis of the use to which a particular appointment system service given to N.H.S. general practitioners has been put during the past seven years. The launching of the service was undertaken not with the idea that it would provide subsequent material for research but solely to help general practitioners. Nevertheless, this retrospective approach does provide information...

Appointment and mobility of general practitioners.

A Tandem Queueing model for an appointment-based service system

We develop a queueing model for an appointment-based service system that consists of two queues in tandem: the appointment queue followed by the service queue. Customers join the appointment queue when they call for appointments, stay there (not physically) until the appointment time comes, and then leave the appointment queue and may physically join the service queue, and wait there until serv...

Leadership and management curriculum planning for Iranian general practitioners

Introduction: Leadership and management are two expected featuresand competencies for general practitioners (GPs). The purpose of thisstudy was leadership and management curriculum planning for GPswhich was performed based on Kern’s curriculum planning cycle.Methods: This study was conducted in 2011-2012 in Iran using anexplanatory mixed-methods approach. It was conducted throughan initial qual...

The efficacy of an automated feedback system for general practitioners.

OBJECTIVE An automated feedback system that produces comments about the non-adherence of general practitioners (GPs) to accepted practice guidelines for ordering diagnostic tests was developed. Before implementing the automated feedback system in daily practice, we assessed the potential effect of the system on the test ordering behaviour of GPs. DESIGN We used a randomised controlled trial w...