title: [Is family physician concept possible to resume?].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  An anonymous survey was performed in a sample of 454 adult patients from the catchment population of eight family medicine teams at Dugave-Travno Clinic in Zagreb to assess their attitudes towards the family physician concept, its advantages and shortcomings. These family medicine teams providing care for 16,077 insures also the number of families with all their members receiving care from these teams.
  
  
  METHODS
  The method of descriptive statistics was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data were obtained on the number of families where only some members received care at the same physician's office and on the proportion of individual family members receiving care at family medicine offices. The sample indicated that more than half of patients received care from the same family physician, and that only one tenth of patients were without their family medical file. Study subjects considered that the family doctor institution contributed to improved care and were aware of the advantages of the family doctor concept. The concept of comprehensive family treatment could currently be implemented in half of the patients. However, the other half are broken up, receiving medical care at offices of different teams.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The family physician concept could be implemented in two ways: exchange of the insures among the teams at a particular clinic providing care for defined populations, and in administrative way. The family physician concept would require two strategic decisions: establishment and development of group practice, and virtual linkage of the family member medical data through an integrated primary health care information system.
authors.affiliation: Hrvatski zavod za javno zdravstvo, Medicinski fakultet, Sveuciliste u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska.
authors.forename: Aleksandar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jovanović
authors.forename: Ines
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gluhak
authors.forename: Ranko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stevanović
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pristas
authors.forename: Ljiljanka
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jurković
authors.forename: Venija Cerovecki
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Nekić
authors.forename: Blazenka
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bezovan
authors.forename: Gordana Mrazovac
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Ostrić
authors.forename: Zeljko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Vuk
authors.forename: Jolanda
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bilić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care; D003625:Data Collection; D005194:Family Practice / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations