Table 3 |
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| Recruitment and Reasons forExclusion of Patient Intervieweesby General Practices | |||||
| GP list size* | Identification method | Number of patients identified | Number of patients invited | Invitations per 100,000 patientsregistered | Reasons given for exclusion |
| 3,000 | Register of palliative care patients | 6 | 2 | 66 | Cognitive impairment (2), Nursing home residents (2) |
| 3,000 | GP knowledge | 17 | 15 | 500 | Cognitive impairment (2) |
| 5,500 | Register of palliative care patients | 4 | 4 | 70 | |
| 6,000 | Register of palliative care patients | 9 | 9 | 150 | |
| 6,000 | Read code search of database | 3 | 3 | 50 | |
| 7,000 | Register of palliative care patients | 21 | 11 | 157 | Cognitive impairment (3), Nursing home (1), staying with family (1), emotionally vulnerable (1), near to death (1), does not wish to be invited (1), may live longer than 1 year (2) |
| 7,500 | Read code search of database | 5 | 5 | 66 | |
| 8,000 | Read code search of database | 4 | 4 | 50 | |
| 9,000 | Practice ‘care board’ | 2 | 2 | 22 | |
| 11,000 | Register of palliative care patients & GP knowledge | 16 | 9 | 82 | No reasons stated |
| 15,000 | GP knowledge | 2 | 2 | 13 | |
| 16,000 | Register of palliative care patients | 9 | 7 | 44 | ‘Too unwell’ (2) |
| 36,000 | Read code search of database | 49 | 49 | 136 | |
*Data on two practices are not available. List sizes have been rounded to the nearest 500 ensure anonymity.
Two practices listed in Table 3 did provide detailed information about exclusions.
Hanratty et al. BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:342 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-12-342
