Structural characteristics of practices include practice location, practice type, consultation patterns, gender, and the number of years since graduation as a proxy for physicians' experience.
For the following consultation types, consultations with women aged 15-49 years were also (separately) examined.
An additional strength is that PROSAIC can interpret multiple data types (consultation records, diagnostic codes, medications) and can be used on large sets of unstructured notes gathered from multiple practitioners in multiple primary care practices with multiple EHR systems rather than being confined to a single data type, a single institution or a single EHR system.
(GP #8) The second main category, consultation, covers the type of consultation, communication and individual routines or rituals by either the GP or the patient.
We linked the number and type of consultations produced by each institution during the same period, generating an indicator of the number of consultations per physician for each specialty.
Four types of consultations were modelled in both types of organizational units - medical, emergency/acute and nursing type 1 and type 2 consultations (with nursing type 1 covering diabetes, child or maternal consultations, and type 2 covering consultations for vaccination and for other types of nursing treatments).
Utilisation of out-of-hours services and the type of consultations patients receive have been regularly investigated [ 2].
The specific objectives here were to estimate the prevalence and type of consultations for minor ailments among adults seeking care in general practice and ED.
We shall extract data from practice records on medications prescribed, number and type of consultations in the practice or at home, outpatient referrals and length of any inpatient stay.
Providers also recorded the type of consultation (first or review consultation) and whether they thought it was appropriate to address lifestyle risk factors in the consultation (yes/no) and if no the reasons why (open response).
