title: [Cooperation of general practitioners with priority practices for addiction in Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The nine "priority practices for addiction" in Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania participating in a model project are supposed to take a central and coordinating position within the addiction management. The aims of this study were to investigate a) the extent to which general practitioners are aware of these priority practices, b) the collaboration among general practices and priority practices and c) the predictors which promote cooperation.
  
  
  METHODS
  One third of all general practitioners in Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania (n = 330) were randomly sampled. Of these, 250 (75,8 %) practitioners (M = 51 years, SD = 10; 55,6 % female) participated in a 10 minutes telephone interview.
  
  
  RESULTS
  About a fourth of the practitioners reported cooperation with "priority practices for addiction". Of all practitioners 53,8 % were not collaborating with these practices or did not know about them. Logistic regressions revealed distance to a priority practices as the only significant predictor which indicated if practitioners referred patients to these priority practices. CONCLUSIONS The concept of this unique project is largely unknown and insufficiently used by practitioners. It should be more strongly communicated within the medical community in order to improve the numbers of referrals. Above that, these specialised practices should be established throughout the country.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Epidemiologie und Sozialmedizin, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald. coder@uni-greifswald.de
authors.forename: Beate
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Coder
authors.forename: Kathrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Röske
authors.forename: Sabina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ulbricht
authors.forename: Dagmar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Doese
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: Ulfert
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hapke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*