General practitioners' perspectives regarding early developmental surveillance for autism within the australian primary healthcare setting: a qualitative study

CONCLUSIONS: The study highlighted the need for practice and policy changes, including further training of GPs alongside sufficient time to complete developmental checks and appropriate financial remuneration through a Medicare billing item. Further research is needed on implementation and scale up of a national surveillance program for early identification of developmental disabilities, including autism.PMID:37563549 | PMC:PMC10416397 | DOI:10.1186/s12875-023-02121-6

Source: Primary Care - August 10, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Josephine Barbaro Teresa Winata Melissa Gilbert Radhika Nair Feroza Khan Abbie Lucien Raisa Islam Anne Masi Antonio Mendoza Diaz Cheryl Dissanayake Lisa Karlov Joseph Descallar John Eastwood Iqbal Hasan Bin Jalaludin Jane Kohlhoff Siaw-Teng Liaw Raghu Lin Source Type: research