Criteria and instruments of appropriateness in primary care

The World Health Organization describes three particular features to assess the appropriateness of most medical services provided by clinicians during typical primary care visits: equity, efficacy and effectiveness. But many others aspects are involved and primary care physicians provide a wide rang...

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Main Author: Andrea Pizzini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SEEd 2008-06-01
Series:Clinical Management Issues
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Online Access:https://journals.seedmedicalpublishers.com/index.php/cmi/article/view/578
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description The World Health Organization describes three particular features to assess the appropriateness of most medical services provided by clinicians during typical primary care visits: equity, efficacy and effectiveness. But many others aspects are involved and primary care physicians provide a wide range of services, most of which have not been studied sufficiently to develop explicit criteria for appropriateness. This articles describes meaning and characteristics of appropriateness in primary care and underlines the most important difficulties met by general practitioners, from the so called “disease mongering” to the application of the results of trials into the real clinical practice.
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spelling doaj.art-8538b02745ff44cfbc128483d529ac102022-12-22T02:09:23ZengSEEdClinical Management Issues1973-48322283-31372008-06-0122838810.7175/cmi.v2i2.578544Criteria and instruments of appropriateness in primary careAndrea Pizzini0Medico di Medicina Generale, TorinoThe World Health Organization describes three particular features to assess the appropriateness of most medical services provided by clinicians during typical primary care visits: equity, efficacy and effectiveness. But many others aspects are involved and primary care physicians provide a wide range of services, most of which have not been studied sufficiently to develop explicit criteria for appropriateness. This articles describes meaning and characteristics of appropriateness in primary care and underlines the most important difficulties met by general practitioners, from the so called “disease mongering” to the application of the results of trials into the real clinical practice.https://journals.seedmedicalpublishers.com/index.php/cmi/article/view/578AppropriatenessPrimary careGeneral practitioners
spellingShingle Andrea Pizzini
Criteria and instruments of appropriateness in primary care
Clinical Management Issues
Appropriateness
Primary care
General practitioners
title Criteria and instruments of appropriateness in primary care
title_full Criteria and instruments of appropriateness in primary care
title_fullStr Criteria and instruments of appropriateness in primary care
title_full_unstemmed Criteria and instruments of appropriateness in primary care
title_short Criteria and instruments of appropriateness in primary care
title_sort criteria and instruments of appropriateness in primary care
topic Appropriateness
Primary care
General practitioners
url https://journals.seedmedicalpublishers.com/index.php/cmi/article/view/578
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