TY - JOUR
T1 - Series
T2 - The research agenda for general practice/family medicine and primary health care in Europe. Part 2. Results: Primary care management and community orientation
AU - Hummers-Pradier, Eva
AU - Beyer, Martin
AU - Chevallier, Patrick
AU - Eilat-Tsanani, Sophia
AU - Lionis, Christos
AU - Peremans, Lieve
AU - Petek, Davorina
AU - Rurik, Imre
AU - Soler, Jean Karl
AU - Stoffers, Henri Ejh
AU - Topsever, Pinar
AU - Ungan, Mehmet
AU - Van Royen, Paul
N1 - Funding Information:
no conflicts of interest.The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. All authors are members of EGPRN and active in its committees. Additionally, EHP is member of the WONCA Europe Executive Board. The Research Agenda was supported solely by EGPRN and grants from WONCA Europe.
PY - 2010/3/11
Y1 - 2010/3/11
N2 - At the WONCA Europe conference 2009 the recently published 'Research Agenda for General Practice/Family Medicine and Primary Health Care in Europe' was presented. It is a background paper and reference manual, providing advocacy of general practice/family medicine (GP/FM) in Europe. The Research Agenda summarizes the evidence relating to the core competencies and characteristics of the WONCA Europe definition of GP/FM, and its implications for general practitioners/family doctors, researchers and policy makers. The European Journal of General Practice publishes a series of articles based on this document. In a first article, background, objectives, and methodology were discussed. In this second article, the results for the core competencies 'primary care management' and 'community orientation' are presented. Though there is a large body of research on various aspects of 'primary care management', it represents a very scattered rather than a meta view. Many studies focus on care for specific diseases, the primary/secondary care interface, or the implications of electronic patient records. Cost efficiency or process indicators of quality are current outcomes. Current literature on community orientation is mainly descriptive, and focuses on either care for specific diseases, or specific patient populations, or on the uptake of preventive services. Most papers correspond poorly to the WONCA concept. For both core competencies, there is a lack of research with a longitudinal perspective and/or relevant health or quality of life outcomes as well as research on patients' preferences and education for organizational aspects of GP/FM.
AB - At the WONCA Europe conference 2009 the recently published 'Research Agenda for General Practice/Family Medicine and Primary Health Care in Europe' was presented. It is a background paper and reference manual, providing advocacy of general practice/family medicine (GP/FM) in Europe. The Research Agenda summarizes the evidence relating to the core competencies and characteristics of the WONCA Europe definition of GP/FM, and its implications for general practitioners/family doctors, researchers and policy makers. The European Journal of General Practice publishes a series of articles based on this document. In a first article, background, objectives, and methodology were discussed. In this second article, the results for the core competencies 'primary care management' and 'community orientation' are presented. Though there is a large body of research on various aspects of 'primary care management', it represents a very scattered rather than a meta view. Many studies focus on care for specific diseases, the primary/secondary care interface, or the implications of electronic patient records. Cost efficiency or process indicators of quality are current outcomes. Current literature on community orientation is mainly descriptive, and focuses on either care for specific diseases, or specific patient populations, or on the uptake of preventive services. Most papers correspond poorly to the WONCA concept. For both core competencies, there is a lack of research with a longitudinal perspective and/or relevant health or quality of life outcomes as well as research on patients' preferences and education for organizational aspects of GP/FM.
KW - Community oriented health care
KW - General practice/family medicine
KW - Primary care management
KW - Research agenda
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77649332011&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3109/13814780903563725
DO - 10.3109/13814780903563725
M3 - Article
C2 - 20100109
AN - SCOPUS:77649332011
SN - 1381-4788
VL - 16
SP - 42
EP - 50
JO - European Journal of General Practice
JF - European Journal of General Practice
IS - 1
ER -