PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - T. A. Carney
TI  - A comparison of workload and morbidity recording by partners in a group practice
DP  - 1980 May 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 271--277
VI  - 30
IP  - 214
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/30/214/271.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/30/214/271.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1980 May 01; 30
AB  - A survey was carried out of one year's workload and morbidity recording by three partners in a semi-rural teaching practice. Despite an equal workload of patient contacts there were shown to be statistically significant differences between the partners in the number of return consultations, the sex and age of the patients seen, and in nine diagnostic groups. The statistically significant differences in the latter groups appear to have been caused by variations in policy for recalling patients and the different sex and age groups of the patients consulting the partners, not by diagnostic preferences. A lack of previous experience affected one group. The partners did not find the discussion of these differences to be threatening.