How do general practitioners put preventive care recommendations into practice? A cross-sectional study in Switzerland and France.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We previously identified that general practitioners (GPs) in French-speaking regions of Europe had a variable uptake of common preventive recommendations. In this study, we describe GPs' reports of how they put different preventive recommendations into practice.

Design, setting and participants

Cross-sectional study conducted in 2015 in Switzerland and France. 3400 randomly selected GPs were asked to complete a postal (n=1100) or online (n=2300) questionnaire. GPs who exclusively practiced complementary and alternative medicine were not eligible for the study. 764 GPs (response rate: postal 47%, online 11%) returned the questionnaire (428 in Switzerland and 336 in France).

Main outcome measures

We investigated how the GPs performed five preventive practices

SUBMITTER: Sebo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5640000 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature