On 9 Jul 2007 at 16:13, David Guest wrote: > Greg Twyford wrote: > > The claim they do it that way because they have found they'd only get > > about 20% of practices with it all in electronic format, and I think > > they are probably right! > I think they have managed to select out the efficient ones. :-)
The "efficient ones" are sadly not representative of Australian general practice. There is on difference in the workload nor the level of computerisation of BEACH participants versus non participants. For an explanation of why BEACH is still on paper see: Britt H, Miller G, Bayram C 2007. The quality of data on general practice - A discussion of BEACH reliability and validity. Aust Fam Physician 36(1-2):36-40. Graeme Miller _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
