This idea is for general or family practitioners anywhere in the world. I have
used e-mail lists and apologise for cross posting.
What sort of questions (and how many) will arise from your next monday morning
surgery. (i acknowldge that monday's are odd and would be happy to accept any
day of the week)
The reason for this question - how can we provide answers to family
practitioners when we don't know what questions they are asking! This would
give us some idea of the scope and quantity
Trish Greenhalgh wrote to the EBH list about this and it prompted an idea. As
there are so many of us on these lists why don't we do a study. Again accepting
that all of us are for many reasons one or two standard deviations from the
normal it would still be valuable.
DON'T DO THIS YET !!!!
- lets wait until we have heard everyone's comments
A very basic idea is that we collect at our next surgery
presenting complaint
age
sex
problem
question (we would categorise later)
send on e-mail - preferably on excel which we have formatted
with your geographical location
{enclosed version 5 excel sheet}
You can see i have been very informal - perhaps this is too loose -
If we bashed out a surgery each we could soon get a decent database of
questions. Volunteers could then categorise and send the results back to all
who took part. I am happy to co-ordinate this. If it looks worth publsihing on
pulped tree we can assign/choose parts of the paper to write.
The great thing is that each of us has only to do one surgery. If we want to
alter the data collection slightly - feel that we need more information etc
then we can just do it again. Simple -
The first thing is to get a list of names of people who are interested. Then
agree the format of the data collection sheet. Then do it.
thanks for your help
martin dawes
Dr Martin Dawes
MD FRCGP
Lecturer in Primary Care
University of Oxford
Institute of Health Sciences
Old Rd, Headington
OXFORD OX3 7LF
Tel (44) 1865 226700
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