Morbidity Patterns in Primary Care in Hong Kong: Protocol for a Practice-Based Morbidity Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Up-to-date and accurate information about the health problems encountered by primary care doctors is essential to understanding the morbidity pattern of the community to better inform health care policy and practice. Morbidity surveys of doctors allow documentation of actual consultations, reflecting the patient's reason for seeking care as well as the doctor's diagnostic interpretation of the illness and management approach. Such surveys are particularly critical in the absence of a centralized primary care electronic medical record database.

Objective

With the changing sociodemographic profile of the population and implementation of health care initiatives in the past 10 years, the aim of this study is to determine the morbidity and management patterns in Hong K

SUBMITTER: Chen JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9260520 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature