Health policy
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To determine the impact of practice size and scope of services on average physician workload in primary care practices in The Netherlands, and to examine the associations between average physician workload, average assistant volume and organisational practice characteristics. ⋯ In The Netherlands the optimum regarding average physician workload was found in the largest practices, while no obvious association with scope of disease management services appeared. It may be that in large practices medical tasks were delegated to practice assistants to provide a wider scope of disease management services and in small practice to reduce average physician workload.
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The reasons for participation in continuing professional education (CPE) programs among health workers importantly determine the level of post-CPE application in daily servicing practice and finally the quality of health services. To categorize and distinguish type of reasons in an evidence-based manner, background factors associated with reasons were identified through conducting a census targeting the health workers in three regions of Ghana (N=6696). ⋯ Conversely, the total number of subjects where health workers found CPE needs produced significantly negative odds ratio with "to gain relief from routine" indicating it is an extrinsic reason. Therefore, whether "to gain relief from routine" is chosen as a reason for participation could be criterion of differentiating between the types of reason.