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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
172
pubmed:dateCreated
1977-2-16
pubmed:abstractText
This study used the age-sex register of a group medical practice as the population base for a postal and follow-up interview enquiry to locate handicapped people and examined the possibility of the combined use of a practice diagnostic index and the patients' medical records for the same purpose. The age-sex register was found to contain deficiencies and inaccuracies despite the substantial efforts of members of the practice team to maintain it, for example, 13.5 per cent of the forms were returned as the addressee was unknown at the address.The 81.5 per cent of householders who responded identified 353 impaired people who were subsequently interviewed about the nature of their impairment, the underlying condition, and the range of their activities. Depending upon the answers to these questions, a proportion of these people were classified as handicapped and were asked further questions. The number of impaired people and their distribution in sex and age-groups were broadly similar to the findings from other surveys. The diagnoses of the underlying conditions given by the impaired people were discussed with the general practitioners and confirmed or otherwise by the use of the patients' notes or the recollections of the general practitioners.It was concluded that while the use of a diagnostic index would be helpful for some conditions, there would remain a substantial number of people with a disease that is potentially disabling who would have to be approached for further screening and also a substantial number of people who are handicapped, but who would be missed.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0035-8797
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
828-36
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1976
pubmed:articleTitle
Identifying handicapped people in general practice.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article