Overall consult positivity was 33.4%, highest for chlamydia (14.7%), condylomata (8.7%) and herpes (6.4%).
These are worth consulting, as overall tables can often conceal pockets of excellence within an institution.
Overall more women were consulting their GP.
Although these differences were not statistically significant, an overall increasing trend in consulting MBBS doctors among patients from the higher socioeconomic quintiles was observed.
The majority of the GPs we interviewed were in full-time paid employment overall and when not consulting with patients in general practice they used their knowledge and expertise in other areas of the health system.
The same three information sources – professional meetings & conferences, peer-reviewed journals and medical colleagues – were, overall, the most consulted or attended and ranked the most important.
Overall, 373,610 subjects consulted with their primary care physician over the 4-month identification period, 12,815 for GERD-related reasons (3.4%); 2678 randomly selected patients attended the follow-up appointment.
Overall, 373,610 subjects consulted with their primary care physician at 134 centres over the identification period, of whom 12,815 (3.4%) did so at least once for GERD-related reasons.
The institute, the research arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers's health care consulting practice, forecasts overall medical inflation of 6.5 percent in 2014 — down from the institute's estimate of 7.5 percent for this year.
Despite this, it is a more homogeneous group than the overall group of all patients consulting their FP, and we feel that using this group for longitudinal comparison makes sense and provides transparency.
