Measuring access to primary care appointments: a review of methods
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Measuring access to primary care appointments: a review of methods
BACKGROUND Patient access to primary care appointments is not routinely measured despite the increasing interest in this aspect of practice activity. The generation of standardised data (or benchmarks) for access could inform developments within primary care organisations and act as a quality marker for clinical governance. Logically the setting of targets should be based on a sound system of m...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Family Practice
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1471-2296
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-4-8