Minor surgery in general practice in Ireland- a report of workload and safety

BMC Primary Care

Table 1 Procedures carried out by the participating GPs (n = 4243) over 6 months

Practice	Cryosurgical Ablation	Excisional biopsy	Joint Injection	Shave,Punch & Incisional biopsy	Therapeutic Phlebotomy	IGTN surgery	Curettage & Diathermy	_Incision & drainage	Excision epidermoid cyst	Suture laceration	Aspiration Ganglion	Enucleation lipoma	Excision Meibomian cyst	Total per practice
1	46	43	30	12	13	13	1	6	2	4	1	0	1	172
2	54	54	60	38	56	21	7	8	5	7	2	0	0	312
3	137	38	111	38	53	24	0	0	15	1	0	5	1	423
4	12	70	1	10	0	1	18	1	3	1		0	0	117
5	50	55	23	6	13	5	0	1	1	5	0	0	0	159
6	82	22	50	6	5	3	0	6	3	9	3			189
7	93	10	52	15	10	7	4	3	0	3	0	0	0	197
8	297	28	5	153	4	30	39	25	1	3	3	0	0	588
9	10	60	15	1	11	11	0	12	0	1	0	1	0	122
10	54	39	66	15	6	15	5	8	0	4	1	0	0	213
11	31	14	35	3	0	11	7	26	5	13	1	2	0	148
12	28	9	33	3	0	6	28	0	11	5	3	4	3	133
13	33	0	41	9	31	2	2	6	1	8	3	1	3	143
14	18	83	6	62	2	10	14	0	22	0	0	4	1	222
15	42	17	49	30	1	3	2	11	9	6	0	0	1	171
16	53	22	27	0	17	6	0	2	3	3	5	0	1	139
17	2	38	22	10	16	17	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	108
18	102	42	7	3	0	34	0	6	17	3	2	0	2	218
19	5	38	11	2	9	4	3	6	0	1	1	0	0	80
20	220	33	27	24	0	9	34	8	30	1	1	2	0	389
Total Procedures(n)	1369	718	671	440	247	232	164	135	128	81	26	19	13	4243
Total Procedures(%)	32.3	16.9	15.8	10.4	5.8	5.5	3.9	3.2	3	1.9	0.6	0.4	0.3	100

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