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Are psychiatric emergency care patients in contact with their GP?. Ingrid H. Johansen , Tone Morken and Steinar Hunskår. In Norway. Regular General Practitioners (rGPs) GPs gatekeepers to all specialized health care Psychiatric diagnoses: rGPs: 10% Casualty clinics: 4%. Research question.
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Are psychiatric emergency care patients in contact with their GP? Ingrid H. Johansen, Tone Morken and Steinar Hunskår
In Norway • Regular General Practitioners (rGPs) • GPs gatekeepers to all specialized health care • Psychiatric diagnoses: • rGPs: 10% • Casualty clinics: 4%
Research question Do the same individual psychiatric patients utilize both the casualty clinic and the rGPs’ surgery?
Method • Electronic medical records • Billing cards • Variables: Gender, age, municipality of residence, first diagnosis, time, reimbursement codes • Unique codes
Conclusion • Some of the psychiatric patients at the rGPs surgeries used the casualty clinic. • Most psychiatric patients at the casualty clinic also used their GP.
? ingrid.johansen@isf.uib.no