Sentence examples for practitioner cooperative from inspiring English sources

general practitioner cooperative.

A quasi experimental study is undertaken at one "general practitioner cooperative" to offer out-of-hours care for 304.000 people in the South East of the Netherlands.

Some other studies [ 16- 19] evaluated the effect of after hours general practitioner cooperative models which ensure close collaboration between primary and emergency care and seems to reduce self referrals at the ED.

Patients seeking emergency care can contact either their own GP, a GP-C (General Practitioner Cooperative) providing out-of-hours emergency services, sporadic urban walk-in emergency centres, or a hospital ED.

We asses the research question: What is the impact of the implementation of a general practitioner cooperative on the use and caseload of out-of-hours primary and secondary care?

Since 2003, in some regions in Belgium, the first general practitioner cooperatives (GPC) emerged.

Similar to health care systems in Denmark and the United Kingdom [ 5], Dutch primary OOH care is provided by large general practitioner cooperatives (GP cooperatives).

From the nineties, general practitioner cooperatives (GPC) were established in many European countries, as a new alternative for the organisation of out-of-hours medical care by general practitioners.

(GP-C): General Practitioner-Cooperative; (GP): General Practitioners; (ED): Emergency Department; (ICPC): International Classification of Primary Care.

In the Netherlands, about half of the patient contacts with a general practitioner (GP) cooperative are nonurgent from a medical perspective.

Dutch health policy makers and insurance companies plan to integrate general practitioner (GP) cooperatives and EDs into one facility to prevent patients from self-referring to the ED.