Title |
Examining the practice of generalist expertise: a qualitative study identifying constraints and solutions
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Published in |
JRSM Open, December 2013
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DOI | 10.1177/2042533313510155 |
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Authors |
Joanne Reeve, Christopher F Dowrick, George K Freeman, Jane Gunn, Frances Mair, Carl May, Stewart Mercer, Victoria Palmer, Amanda Howe, Greg Irving, Alice Shiner, Jessica Watson |
Abstract |
Provision of person-centred generalist care is a core component of quality primary care systems. The World Health Organisation believes that a lack of generalist primary care is contributing to inefficiency, ineffectiveness and inequity in healthcare. In UK primary care, General Practitioners (GPs) are the largest group of practising generalists. Yet GPs fulfil multiple roles and the pressures of delivering these roles along with wider contextual changes create real challenges to generalist practice. Our study aimed to explore GP perceptions of enablers and constraints for expert generalist care, in order to identify what is needed to ensure health systems are designed to support the generalist role. |
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United Kingdom | 9 | 56% |
Japan | 3 | 19% |
Unknown | 4 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 8 | 50% |
Scientists | 6 | 38% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
Brazil | 1 | 1% |
Argentina | 1 | 1% |
Denmark | 1 | 1% |
Japan | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 79 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 14% |
Researcher | 11 | 13% |
Student > Master | 9 | 11% |
Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 7% |
Other | 5 | 6% |
Other | 15 | 18% |
Unknown | 27 | 32% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 35 | 41% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 5% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 5% |
Psychology | 3 | 4% |
Computer Science | 2 | 2% |
Other | 9 | 11% |
Unknown | 28 | 33% |