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Analysis of GPs' opinions of new patients' psychiatric assessment letters
Author(s) -
Najim Hellme,
Loughran Michael
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.255
Subject(s) - global positioning system , primary care , general partnership , secondary care , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , medical education , family medicine , computer science , telecommunications , business , finance
New psychiatric assessment letters to GPs are of paramount importance in setting up a successful partnership between primary and secondary care. In this study, Dr Najim and Dr Loughran identified the patient information considered by GPs to be essential and used the results to design an improved letter format to optimise communication between primary and secondary care.