Family practitioner participation in routine antenatal care in Israel: what hospital gynaecologists think.
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.
Brooks
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Tel Shalom, Pardess Hanna-Karkur, Israel.
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