General practice notes may be inaccurate for various reasons. A study was carried out in one semi-rural practice to investigate the agreement between records held by the family practitioner committee and those kept in the practice. Details on the practice notes and the family practitioner committee list were compared for 800 patients. The details examined included name, sex, date of birth, addr...

Objective: Pregnancy is an important psychological and biological phenomenon in women’s life. Pregnancy has many complications jeopardizing the well-being of the mother and the child. Methods: In this retrospective study, the data including demographic information, chief complaint, the initial diagnosis, referral decision, final diagnosis, hospitalization...

OBJECTIVE To assess the safety and value of an exercise electrocardiography service for the diagnosis of suspected ischaemic heart disease to which general practitioners have direct access. DESIGN Direct access to a hospital exercise electrocardiography service was offered on a trial basis to 122 general practitioners in a defined urban area. Maximal exercise tests were performed according to...

The Web Experiment List (http://genpsylab-wexlist.unizh.ch/), a free Web-based service for the recruitment of participants in Internet-based experiments, is presented. The Web Experiment List also serves as a searchable archive for the research community. It lists more than 250 links to and descriptions of current and past Web experiments. Searches can be conducted by area of research, language...

It has been suggested recently that the Department of Health and Social Security's instructions for collecting National Health Service waiting list statistics in England and Wales' contain anomalies as a result of the exclusion of several categories of patients awaiting surgery.2 The aim of this study was to quantify the anomalies in one district general hospital and to assess their effect in d...

(Tavistock Publications, 32s. 6d) The family doctor, sitting at the centre of his observed world over years, has unique facilities for observation and record. All general practitioners in the National Health Service have two other advantages: that patients cared for on the 'list' comprise a practice population nearly representative of the community at large and that the doctor seems to be the b...

The TISDAG (Technical Infrastructure for Swedish Directory Access Gateway) project provided valuable insight into the current reality of deploying a wide-scale directory service. This document catalogues some of the experiences gained in developing the necessary infrastructure for a national (i.e., multi-organizational) directory service and pilot deployment of the service in an environment wit...