General Practitioners' Opinions About Their Responsibility for Medical Tasks: Comparison Between England and the Netherlands

Whitfield M, Grol R and Mokkink H. General practitioners' opinions about their responsibility for medical tasks: comparison between England and the Netherlands. Family Practice 1989; 6: 274–278. A questionnaire survey compared a sample of 371 general practitioners in the Avon region of England with 74 general practitioners in the east of the Netherlands. A list of 14 medical tasks — six technical tasks and eight chronic disease management tasks — was presented and the doctors indicated whether each task was totally, often, sometimes, seldom or not at all the responsibility of the general pract... Mehr ...