How GPs adapted their practices and organisations at the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak: a French national observational survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe how general practitioners (GPs) adapted their practices to secure and maintain access to care in the epidemic phase. A secondary objective was to explore if GPs' individual characteristics and type of practice determined their adaptation.

Design

Observational study using an online questionnaire. Organisational changes were measured by a main question and detailed in two specific outcomes. To identify which GPs' characteristics impacted organisational changes, successive multivariate logistic modelling was performed. First, we identified the GPs' characteristics related to organisational changes with a univariate analysis. Then, we tested the adjusted associations between this variable and the following GPs' characteristics: age, gender and type of prac

SUBMITTER: Saint-Lary O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7712933 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature