Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20243
Publication type: Article in scientific journal
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: Recent trends and variations in general practitioners’ involvement in accident care in Switzerland : an analysis of claims data
Authors: Höglinger, Marc
Knöfler, Fabio
Schaumann-von Stosch, Rita
Scholz-Odermatt, Stefan M.
Eichler, Klaus
et. al: No
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-020-01170-5
10.21256/zhaw-20243
Published in: BMC Family Practice
Volume(Issue): 2020
Issue: 21
Page(s): 99
Issue Date: 5-Jun-2020
Publisher / Ed. Institution: BioMed Central
ISSN: 1471-2296
Language: English
Subjects: Accident care; Emergency department; General practitioner; Health services research
Subject (DDC): 362: Health and social services
Abstract: Background: As in other countries, there is concern and some fragmentary evidence that GPs’ central role in the Swiss healthcare system as the primary provider of care might be changing or even be in decline. Our study gives a systematic account of GPs’ involvement in accident care from 2008 to 2016 and identifies changes in GPs’ involvement in this typical field of primary care: how frequently GPs were involved along the care pathway, to what extent they figured as initial care provider, and what their role in the care pathway was. Methods: Using a claims dataset from the largest Swiss accident insurer with two million accident cases, we constructed individual care pathways, i.e., when and from which providers patients received care. We calculated probabilities for the involvement of various care provider groups, for initial care provision, and for the role of GPs in patients’ care pathways, adjusted for injury and patient characteristics using multinomial regression. Results: In 2014, GPs were involved in 70% of all accident cases requiring outpatient care but no inpatient stay, and provided initial care in 56%. While involvement stayed at about the same level for accidents occurring from 2008 to 2014, the share of accidents where GPs provided initial care decreased by 4 percentage points. The share of cases where GPs acted as sole care provider decreased by 7 percentage points down to 44%. At the same time, accident cases involving care from an ED at any point in time increased from 38 to 46% and the share receiving initial care from an ED from 30 to 35 percentage points – apparently substituting for the declining involvement of GPs in initial care. GPs’ involvement in accident care is higher in rural compared to urban regions, among elderly compared to younger patients, and among Swiss compared to non-Swiss citizens. Conclusions: GPs play a key role in accident care with considerable variation depending on region and patient profile. From 2008 to 2014, there is a remarkable decline in GPs’ provision of initial care after an accident. This is a strong indication that the GPs’ role in the Swiss healthcare system is changing.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/20243
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement: School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit: Winterthur Institute of Health Economics (WIG)
Published as part of the ZHAW project: Die Rolle ärztlicher Grundversorger bei der Behandlung von Unfallpatienten
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Höglinger, M., Knöfler, F., Schaumann-von Stosch, R., Scholz-Odermatt, S. M., & Eichler, K. (2020). Recent trends and variations in general practitioners’ involvement in accident care in Switzerland : an analysis of claims data. BMC Family Practice, 2020(21), 99. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01170-5
Höglinger, M. et al. (2020) ‘Recent trends and variations in general practitioners’ involvement in accident care in Switzerland : an analysis of claims data’, BMC Family Practice, 2020(21), p. 99. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01170-5.
M. Höglinger, F. Knöfler, R. Schaumann-von Stosch, S. M. Scholz-Odermatt, and K. Eichler, “Recent trends and variations in general practitioners’ involvement in accident care in Switzerland : an analysis of claims data,” BMC Family Practice, vol. 2020, no. 21, p. 99, Jun. 2020, doi: 10.1186/s12875-020-01170-5.
HÖGLINGER, Marc, Fabio KNÖFLER, Rita SCHAUMANN-VON STOSCH, Stefan M. SCHOLZ-ODERMATT und Klaus EICHLER, 2020. Recent trends and variations in general practitioners’ involvement in accident care in Switzerland : an analysis of claims data. BMC Family Practice. 5 Juni 2020. Bd. 2020, Nr. 21, S. 99. DOI 10.1186/s12875-020-01170-5
Höglinger, Marc, Fabio Knöfler, Rita Schaumann-von Stosch, Stefan M. Scholz-Odermatt, and Klaus Eichler. 2020. “Recent Trends and Variations in General Practitioners’ Involvement in Accident Care in Switzerland : An Analysis of Claims Data.” BMC Family Practice 2020 (21): 99. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01170-5.
Höglinger, Marc, et al. “Recent Trends and Variations in General Practitioners’ Involvement in Accident Care in Switzerland : An Analysis of Claims Data.” BMC Family Practice, vol. 2020, no. 21, June 2020, p. 99, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01170-5.


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