Dear Colleagues,
I want to ask your support for a research project about preventive services in
Primary Care.
The reason for this research is to investigate some preventive services in
primary care and to hear something about the opinion of the GP regarding
prevention. The data of our research could be very helpful in the development
of ICPC 3. The ICPC is an international classification of symptoms and diseases
in Primary Care and linked to the ICD-10. This classification is already been
used in many countries (not in GB and the US). But the rubrics for prevention
are very limited. For analyzing the preventive services in PC we need a good
classification.
Personal (I am a GP in the Netherlands, senior researcher at the Department
of Primary Care in Nijmegen and member of the WONCA International
Classification Committee) I am not convinced in the surplus value of
some/many preventive services, as defined in our questionnaire. It will be very
interesting to see the differences between countries and GP’s characteristics.
My request to you is to forward our questionnaire and to recommend your
colleges in your country to fill in our questionnaire.
Kind regards,
Kees van Boven
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