title: Family practitioner participation in routine antenatal care in Israel: what hospital gynaecologists think.
abstract: Antenatal care by family practitioners in Israel is unusual. Patient demand, increasing tendency to specialization, high doctor to patient ratio and historical reasons all partly explain the phenomenon. A postal survey of the heads of 34 delivery units was carried out to find out their attitude towards such care and to a proposed follow-up card. Twenty per cent of the gynaecologists surveyed were in favour of antenatal care by family practitioners, a higher figure than the author had anticipated. The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Tel Shalom, Pardess Hanna-Karkur, Israel.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Brooks
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005194:Family Practice; D006176:Gynecology; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D007557:Israel; D010819:Physician's Role; D011295:Prenatal Care