Practice profiles in evaluating the clinical experience of family medicine trainees.
A practice profile is a compilation of information allowing definition and evaluation of any of several parameters of health-care delivery. Prerequisites for development of profiles presented in this report include: suitable classification of health problems; patient demographic data; identification of individual and groups of health-care providers; and definition of the practice or study population. Details are given for two profiles: the assigned patient and the diagnostic workload profiles. Single profiles are purely descriptive but, when evaluated by appropriate peer comparison, may form the basis for a more dynamic process--that of improvement and change. Possible applications of practice profiles are discussed.
D000553:Ambulatory Care; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D009518:New York; D010361:Patients