General practitioner and hospital specialist attitudes to functional gastrointestinal disorders

General practitioner knowledge, skills and attitudes to eating disorders

Results Response rate was 22%, similar to previous studies in this field. More than one third of general practitioners reported they don\’t have the skills to treat an eating disorder (ED). More than a quarter reported there were no resources available to them for treating eating disorders and 38% had missed an ED diagnosis with a patient who was subsequently discovered to have an eating disord...

The general practitioner and the specialist.

Rheumatology at the general practitioner/hospital interface: a study of prevalence and access to specialist care.

Four general practices with a combined population of 23,300 in the west of Scotland participated in a record research and questionnaire assessment of 551 patients with rheumatic diseases. The study describes the prevalence, levels of disability found, and the types of service used. Even with this number of patients it was not possible to detect any significant differences in disability levels, ...

General practitioner and psychotherapist referrals to a specialist psychotherapy centre

the design of specialist psychotherapy services as they are responsible for purchasing and commis sioning to an increasing extent. This is particu larly true for GPs who are fundholders, but the views of primary care physicians are important also because of their overall clinical responsibility for the majority of patients with psychiatric illness. It would be useful to know: (a)whether GPs hav...

General practitioner and hospital letters.

Communication by letter was assessed between hospital consultants and general practitioners for outpatients and inpatients referred to the Ards Hospital during the month of January 1993. The information was assessed to be poor in several sections of 104 outpatient referral letters, and of 89 inpatient referral letters despite a high use of the standard referral letter form. Consultant physician...