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Specialist outreach clinics in general practice: what do they offer?
BACKGROUND Specialist outreach clinics in general practice, in which hospital-based specialists hold outpatient clinics in general practitioners' (GPs) surgeries, are one example of a shift in services from secondary to primary care. AIM To describe specialist outreach clinics held in fundholding general practices in two specialties from the perspective of patients, GPs, and consultants, and ...
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OBJECTIVE To develop outreach clinics for orthodontic consultation and evaluate their costs and effectiveness. DESIGN Single centre randomised controlled trial with random allocation of referred patients to outreach or main base consultation appointments. SETTING One hospital orthodontic department and three community health centre clinics in Greater Manchester. Subjects 324 patients who we...
متن کاملSpecialist outreach clinics in primary care and rural hospital settings (Cochrane Review).
BACKGROUND Specialist medical practitioners have conducted clinics in primary care and rural hospital settings for a variety of reasons in many different countries. Such clinics have been regarded as an important policy option for increasing the accessibility and effectiveness of specialist services and their integration with primary care services. OBJECTIVES To undertake a descriptive overvi...
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BACKGROUND Little is known about the activity of the many new specialist outreach clinics in fundholding general practices that have emerged since the introduction of fundholding in 1991, though it has been claimed that specialist outreach clinics have shortened waiting times for fundholders' patients. This study describes the activity of specialist outreach clinics in fundholding practices in ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.308.6936.1053