title: ["What is important to paediatric practitioners regarding their working relationships with a university hospital?"].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Quality management is part of Good Medical Practice. Surveys of both patient satisfaction and collaborative aspects of medical care amongst physicians in hospital and primary care are essential.
  
  
  METHODS
  In February 2006, 92 questionnaires were distributed among office-based paediatricians in Leipzig and its suburbs. Until the reply deadline, which was in April 2006, 43 of the questionnaires had been completed and returned. The questionnaire examined attitudes of the referring physicians towards the hospital.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Considering all answers, the Children's Hospital of the University of Leipzig received a positive rating. The results were influenced both by the age of the responding physicians and by the answer to the question of whether the respondents had previously been employed by the Children's Hospital of the University of Leipzig.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This survey revealed important data on the attitudes of practitioners towards the strengths and weaknesses of the hospital. As a result, concrete measures could be implemented to enhance this co-operation with general practitioners.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Kinder und Jugendliche, Liebigstr. 20a, 04103 Leipzig.
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kohn
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Würz
authors.forename: Elmar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brähler
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nickel
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kapellen
authors.forename: Wieland
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kiess
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005858:Germany; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000592:standards*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires