Workload in Norwegian general practice 2018 - an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rising workload in general practice has been a recent cause for concern in several countries; this is also the case in Norway. Long working hours and heavy workload seem to affect recruitment and retention of regular general practitioners (RGPs). We investigated Norwegian RGPs' workload in terms of time used on patient-related office work, administrative work, municipality tasks and other professional activities in relation to RGPs, and gender, age, employment status and size of municipality.

Methods

In early 2018, an electronic survey was sent to all 4716 RGPs in Norway. In addition to demographic background, the RGP reported minutes per day used on various tasks in the RGP practice prospectively during 1 week. Working time also included additional tasks in the m

SUBMITTER: Morken T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6599272 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature