TY - JOUR T1 - Compiling a practice disease register—the prevalence of incidental problems JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 213 LP - 215 VL - 34 IS - 261 AU - Robert Fairley Y1 - 1984/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/34/261/213.abstract N2 - This paper presents the results of a five-year survey in a general practice of the annual incidence and prevalence rates of selected major chronic medical problems presented to, and recognized by, the family doctors. These rates are compared with figures from the second national morbidity survey, 1970-71. The difficulties of defining some of these diseases accurately and of avoiding systematic errors in morbidity recordings are also discussed. ER -