Survey of General Practitioners Point of View about Family Physician and Referral System Policies in Urban Areas for 2013

Subject Areas : medical documents

ansour Zahiri ¹ , efat mohamadi ² , ZhGila Najafpoor ³ , Mohamad reza Mobini zadeh ⁴ , Zahra Guodarzi ⁵

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Health Service Management, Joundi ShapourAhvaz University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - PhD Student of Health Policy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 - PhD Student of Health Service Management, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor, National Institute for Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5 - PhD Student on Pharmacy Eeconomics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2017-07-05 Accepted : 2017-08-16 Published : 2017-08-23

Keywords: referral system, Family physician, policy analysis, instruction,

Abstract :

Introduction: The most important issues in the process of implementation is stakeholder analysis and identify their interests to effective implementation. This study intends to examine policy content of family physicians and referral system from the medical perspective as the main stakeholders the project. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was conducted in 2013. Data collection using the questionnaire developed by the researchers based on version 02 family physician instructions that its validity and reliability were tested. Data were analyzed with SPSS software. Results: Over 60% of sample were female and aged less than 40 years. They also were under 5 years of experience and more than %50 of physicians were working in the line (health teams). Conclusions: Establishing referral system in the country is a huge revolution in the delivery of health services. To implementation of this, and access to health services costs associated with the management. Infrastructure and health reforms in other sectors including health information systems, and training of related human resource, improve culture of the society, guidelines related to the payment system and how service delivery is required.

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