Table 2 GPs' ratings of meaningfulness of common activities in general practice on a scale anchored from 1 (not meaningful) to 5 (very meaningful)
Activity | Score 4 or 5 (n=1,308)1 |
|---|---|
Recent everyday symptoms and complaints | 94% |
(e.g. infections, lumbago, tendinitis, head ache, dyspnea, chest pain, abdominal pain, etc.) | |
Follow up of chronic somatic diseases | 93% |
(e.g. COPD, heart disease, diabetes) | |
Terminal care | 80% |
Follow up of chronic psychiatric diseases | 77% |
(e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, anxiety/depression) | |
Risk conditions | 76% |
(elevated blood pressure or cholesterol, low bone mass density) | |
On call emergency health care | 70% |
(e.g. trauma/accidents, acute, serious somatic and psychiatric diseases) | |
Meetings regarding individual patients | 67% |
Teaching and supervision of students and residents | 64% |
Follow up of persons certified unfit for work | 52% |
Psychosocial problems | 49% |
(e.g. marital crises, conflicts at work) | |
Nursing home medicine | 48% |
Quality assurance | 44% |
(e.g. development and maintenance of guidelines/procedures) | |
Medically unexplained symptoms | 44% |
(e.g. chronic fatigue, chronic pain syndroms) | |
Drug abuse/addiction medicine | 41% |
Meetings with local health authorities | 35% |
Preventive health clinics | 32% |
Research | 29% |
Practice administration/management | 29% |
(e.g. human resource management, bookkeeping, etc.) | |
School health service | 21% |
Health certifications | 16% |