Evaluation of the performance of general practitioners in a collaborative care program by employing simulated patients

Conclusion The overall performance of physicians in CC was better than the GPs in the control group in making an effective patient–physician relationship, and evaluating a psychotic patient. The main weakness of the GPs was in proper treatment of the minor and more common psychiatric disorders and in evaluation of patients with suicidal ideations who were in need for emergent referral. Evaluating performance of the practitioners is feasible employing SPs and the findings can be translated into improvements in the available services.
Source: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research