General Practitioners' Views About an Orthopaedic Clinical Assessment Service

ConclusionGPs saw OCAS as another referral choice for patients suffering orthopaedic pathologies. GPs identified some difficulty in understanding the different services including the various professional roles involved. To assist with their understanding, they described requesting advertising of the different services and the clinicians involved or streamlining of services by provider services. Further detailed research addressing the limitations in this research design is indicated to investigate GP's thoughts and behaviours in relation to referral patterns especially as GPs in the UK took on commissioning for services from April 2013. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Physiotherapy Research International - Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Tags: Research Article Source Type: research