General practitioners' attendance at case conferences.

General practitioner, specialist providers case conferences in palliative care--lessons learned from 56 case conferences.

OBJECTIVE To describe the utility and acceptability to general practitioners and palliative care staff of case conferences in palliative care. METHOD Research focussed on case conferences conducted between GPs and staff of three specialist palliative care units (in an inner urban, outer metropolitan and regional setting), at the time of referral of patients to the service. Telephone interview...

Resident attendance at weekly conferences after implementation of an optional asynchronous learning curriculum

Asynchronous learning (ASL) is a student-centered method of teaching utilizing online learning resources to overcome time and space constraints to facilitate information sharing and interaction amongst learners.1 Studies show it to be a valued and effective method of learning.2 As the availability of online educational resources for physicians has increased in recent years,3 Free Open Access Me...

Attendance on Soldiers by Civil Practitioners

Patient characteristics affecting attendance at general outpatient clinics.

A study was carried out to identify the characteristics of children who do not attend appointments at general outpatient clinics. Over six months, 359 children who had an appointment at a general clinic were studied using a questionnaire given to parents (74% response rate) and by inspection of case notes. Based on their first appointment in the study period, children were divided into 'attende...

Communication with general practitioners after accident and emergency attendance: computer generated letters are often deficient.

OBJECTIVES Accident and emergency departments see large numbers of patients, and computerised administration systems are a useful tool for producing discharge communication. The purpose of this study was to determine the quality of such correspondence. METHODS Retrospective review of 300 discharge letters and case notes. RESULTS 29% of all computer generated discharge information was incomp...