Sentence examples for metropolitan practice from inspiring English sources
The second focus group involved one nurse (N5) and one GP (GP5) from a metropolitan practice.
Wald χ test was used to determine the factors associated for location intent, which is rural practice or metropolitan practice.
Clinical practice in a rural context differs markedly from that of metropolitan practice, geographically, sociologically and demographically [ 1, 38, 41, 42].
In contrast, in 1999 Butler and Sheppard found that newly graduated PTs were equally well prepared or better prepared in rural practice as compared to metropolitan practice [ 37].
Little is known about how the Nurse Consultant role function differs in metropolitan practice when compared to rural practice or when the role extends across both metropolitan and rural context.
In contrast, metropolitan practice is generally more specialised with a diverse and large workforce with defined discipline boundaries and scope within with a wider range of services, and resources than is available to rural practice [ 8].
The study was conducted over one month at three metropolitan practices from the practice-based research network (known as PracNet) affiliated with the Australian National University Medical School.
Purposive sampling [ 22] was employed to ensure both male and female GPs from rural and metropolitan practices participated, thereby increasing the heterogeneity of experiences and perspectives.
Nonetheless, consultation time is generally longer for GPs in rural practices compared to metropolitan practices and when dealing with chronic health problems, compared to non-chronic health problems [ 47].
The four regional/rural practices were also paired - two rural and two regional - and were assigned within pairs to intervention and control in the same way as the metropolitan practices.
The eight metropolitan practices were paired within the four SEIFA quartiles and one practice in each quartile was randomised to receive the intervention protocol and the other the control protocol, using a pre-determined randomisation sequence prepared by the trial statistician.
