作者: F D Richard Hobbs , Clare Bankhead , Toqir Mukhtar , Sarah Stevens , Rafael Perera-Salazar
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00620-6
关键词: Primary care 、 Medicine 、 General practice 、 Young adult 、 Family medicine 、 Health policy 、 Retrospective cohort study 、 Health care 、 Workload 、 Retrospective analysis
摘要: Background Primary care is the main source of health care in many health systems, including the UK National Health Service (NHS), but few objective data exist for the volume and nature of primary care activity. With rising concerns that NHS primary care workload has increased substantially, we aimed to assess the direct clinical workload of general practitioners (GPs) and practice nurses in primary care in the UK. Methods We did a retrospective analysis of GP and nurse consultations of non-temporary patients registered at …