General practitioners’ acceptability to handle unscheduled visits: a french nationwide cross-sectional survey
Most French GPs surveyed, representing approximatively 2% of the overall French GP population, integrate daily slots for unscheduled visits into their practice but they are typically reserved for their existing patient base. The survey further revealed that two-thirds of these GPs are unwilling to communicate the availability of these slots to EDs. Additionally, an even larger proportion would refuse to allow automatic scheduling of ED patients into their clinics if redirection strategies were implemented at their local hospitals.
Authors
- Axel Benhamed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8784-5273)
- Christophe Goetz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8381-2607)
- Simon Berthelot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0372-0586)
- Antonio Dal Canton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2189-6315)
- Pascal Staccini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7608-4066)
- Daniel Vieira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1080-6814)
- F. Klein
- Laure Abensur Vuillaume
- Olivier Hinard
Institutions
- Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CA)
- Centre Hospitalier Régional de Metz-Thionville (FR)
- Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval (CA)
- Cognition Behaviour Technology (FR)
- Université Laval (CA)
- Université de Lorraine (FR)
- Nantes Université (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Primary Care
- Published
- 2025-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-025-03012-8
- Primary Topic
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00