Martin Halperin wrote: >Hugh, >I wasn't meaning to sound 'critical' of this Listserv. I will try Nat-Div and still 'hang around' here. I am actually in the early phase of planning some GP research looking at benefits of Listserv communication between doctors - particularly its effect on improving quality of care. So my interest is to explore what Listervs already exist and which research groups are interested in this area of Computing in General Practice. > >I am keen for any other suggestions. Thanks > > Hi Martin
The potted history. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] started in 1995. The latter is now defunct. The former is not for timid souls like myself. I understand it is not a fully open list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] started in 1999 but now also gets little traffic. [EMAIL PROTECTED] deals with the use of the e-smith server in Australian medical practices. Some linux questions are asked and answered there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was started in late 2000 after HCN locked their bulletin board to some posters when they received unfavourable commentary. Its activity is charted on its website. It is low currently. There are a few application / focus specific groups that discuss their area of interest and occasionally other things. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are two examples. I belong to one GP research oriented list. It is low volume. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was sponsored by GPCG and was quite active. Since its funding was withdrawn a new bulletin board (?and list) has been set up by the RACGP. See gpcg.org.au. [email protected] was created by Peter Machell and Horst Herb at the urgings of Tim Churches to carry on the discussions that were previously held on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don't you just love namespaces.) The old GPCG_TALK did not confine itself to medical IT semantics and discussed a number of technical and medicopolitical issues. I believe this list is similar in this regard. Check the archives. We have some. In answer to your particular query, I don't think email lists setup for the purpose of discussing clinical matters have been successful. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists have only ever been of very low volume. IT literate GPs are few and far between and tend to talk about IT matters. Perhaps we all feel that exposing our clinical ignorance is generally not a good thing to do in an open forum. Your research project sounds like a difficult one. Presuming you can enlist enough people to the intervention group how do you measure whether there is an improvement in quality care. I'd suggest something simpler like prescribing habits of those exposed and not exposed to ads at the time of prescribing. HTH. David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
