Assessment of workload and human capacity of family physicians in Manisa province in 2011

Tuncal, Ayşe Nur; Köroğlu, Galip; Atasoylu, Gonca; Sertel, Mustafa; Tay, Ziya

doi:10.2399/tahd.14.58561

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“…21,175 FPs provide primary care services. Each FP has a list of 3,621 patients on average which is much more than those in Western countries (4,9,10,11). There are almost 43,000 GPs in the UK serving approximately 63,182,000 people.…”

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“…The high number of registered persons for each FP is expected to lead to an increased workload. Although Turkish FPs have no gatekeeping function and all people have unlimited access to any level of healthcare, daily number of encounters is high for the majority of family doctors (2,4).…”

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“…They emphasized on lack of coordination with other care levels and high patient satisfaction rate giving almost no details about service content or daily activities of Turkish FPs (4).…”

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The study aims to determine the daily workload and to analyze the content of workload, to describe the service profile of FPs working in primary care in Turkey. Methods: The study design is descriptive and cross-sectional. A total of 28 FPs from 17 different cities were enrolled into the study. Two surveys, one inquiring the demographic properties of FPs participated and a second encounter form with 43 items inquiring all aspects of FPs' workload were filled by the participants. Results: A total of 1,215 visits were reported. The average daily workload of FPs participating was 45.7± 16.8 visits. 92.5% of all patients were family physicians' own registered patients while 7.5% of them were guests. A total of 1,610 RFEs were reported. We categorized them as prescription requests (451, 28%), clinical complaints (447, 27.8%), preventive medicine services (436, 27%), administrative reasons (161, %10) and other reasons (115, 7.2%). Essential hypertension and diseases of musculoskeletal system were the most common diagnoses in prescription requests. Sore throat and cough were the top two clinical complaints. Conclusions: FPs are under severe pressure in terms of workload in Turkey. Prescription requests account for an important percentage of this workload. Measures should be taken to lessen this burden.

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