TY - JOUR T1 - Domiciliary visits by pathologists: an evaluation JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 224 LP - 227 VL - 30 IS - 213 AU - R. N. Grüneberg AU - J. D. M. Richards Y1 - 1980/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/30/213/224.abstract N2 - Domiciliary visits by pathologists may confer benefits of various kinds: enabling many illnesses to be managed safely at home rather than by admission to hospital or attendance at the outpatient department; reassurance of patients, relatives, and family practitioners; the mutual education of family practitioners and pathologists; and the improvement of outcome of disease by early investigation. An analysis of the financially definable costs and benefits of 1,182 domiciliary visits by two pathologists during an eight-year period shows that the savings are much greater than the costs. ER -