We then compared consultation times and STI-testing rates during comparable CASI and non-CASI operating periods.
CiPCA is a high quality primary care database, giving comparable musculoskeletal consultation prevalence to national primary care databases [ 8, 9].
This study was performed within a high quality dataset which included practices who undergo annual assessments of their morbidity coding, have reached levels of 97% of contacts being given a code, and give comparable general consultation rates to national databases[ 1, 20].
Mood disorders were comparable between the consultation group (30.9%) and the non-consultation group (32.6%).
In three hospitals, care and treatment as provided to patients with advanced incurable cancer for whom a PCT is consulted during their stay in the hospital will be compared with care and treatment as provided to comparable patients without PCT consultation.
Over both periods, the numbers of consultations with the rheumatologist were comparable, whereas the numbers of consultations with the rheumatology nurse and telephonic consultations were higher in the T2T group.
However, the CiPCA database has been shown to give comparable age-gender standardised consultation prevalence figures for musculoskeletal problems overall, and for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and arthralgia as the larger national RCGP WRS database[ 1].
Recording of consultations and prescriptions is comparable to national statistics on consultations and prescriptions.
In eleven subjects (73%) a significant positive coherence between the two measurements was found, indicating that watching your own videotaped consultations evokes comparable psychophysiological arousal in most but not all participants.
