Biomedical subjects
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Clinical trials are used to test drug therapy but the principles of a trial may be applied to the assessment of any treatment (although the essential formality of a trial might confuse and irritate a general practitioner involved as a participant or reader of results). This is the first of two articles which aim to reconcile the theory of formal clinical trials and the practice of medicine.
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The use of a morbidity and therapeutic index in general practice is described. The system can monitor practice activities, morbidity, prescribing and patient characteristics for individual practices or surgeys. A triplicate prescription form is used for data collection, with minimum inconvenience to the doctor. Complete patient confidentially is maintained. Some problems of classification and coding are discussed.
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In a comprehensive survey of the number of general practitioners in the four metropolitan health regions of Sydney, 2,328 general practitioners were identified--the equivalent of 2,225 full time practitioners. This resulted in a ratio of one general practitioner to every 1,393 of the Sydney population.
A comprehensive survey of the number of general practitioners in the Western Metropolitan Health Region of Sydney identified 753 general practitioners with one or more practice locations in the region; this was the equivalent of 711 full-time general practitioners, and represented a general practitioner-population ratio of 1:1533.
Respiratory infections are the most common group of diseases experienced in the community and treated by doctors. Tonsillitis and pharyngitis, sometimes referred to together as acute sore throat, are among the most common of the individual respiratory infections.
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