Identifying people with a learning disability: an advanced search for general practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with learning disabilities (LD) have poor physical and mental health when compared with the general population. They are also likely to find it more difficult than others to describe their symptoms adequately. It is therefore harder for healthcare workers to identify the health needs of those with learning disabilities, with the danger of some problems being left unrecognised. Practice registers record only a proportion of those who are eligible, making it difficult to target improvements in their health care.

Aim

To test a Read Code search supporting the identification of people with a mild-to-moderate learning disability who are not currently on the learning disability register.

Design and setting

An observational study in primary care in West York

SUBMITTER: Russell AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5697554 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature