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General practitioners are more likely to prescribe technical aids to women.
2004 APR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- General practitioners are more likely to prescribe technical aids to women.
"This study focused on the allocation of technical aids, in particular which technical aids general practitioners (GPs) prescribe for what patients. Data was collected by 64 Dutch GPs participating in a nationwide representative sentinel practice network. The GPs gathered information on type of technical aid prescribed, patient characteristics, and diagnosis (coded according to the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC))," scientists in the Netherlands report.
"The most frequently prescribed technical aids include incontinence supplies, anti-edema stockings, and rollators. The number of prescribed technical aids increased strongly with the age of the patients and almost all technical aids were prescribed more often for women than for men," noted M.C.J. Biermans and colleagues, Netherlands Institute for Health Service Research.
"Most technical aids were prescribed based on the initiative of the patients. The GPs made a wide ...
- General practitioners are more likely to prescribe technical aids to women.
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