Statement | Frequently | Occasionally | Rarely | Never | No response |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
I have detected (incipient) liver disease that the general practitioner did not notice or remained unaware of in a patient. | 25% | 59% | 11% | 4% | 1% |
Primary care could do better at initial testing and diagnosis of (incipient) liver disease. | 29% | 42% | 17% | 10% | 2% |
General practitioners are not always sufficiently aware of elevated liver values with unknown aetiology to notice the onset of liver disease at an early stage. | 27% | 43% | 13% | 13% | 4% |
Patients that general practitioners have referred to gastroenterologists for an elevated liver count of unknown aetiology often turn out to be non-specific. | 18% | 51% | 15% | 12% | 4% |
General practitioners often fail to follow up on elevated liver values. | 23% | 42% | 17% | 15% | 3% |
General practitioners are too quick to refer patients with elevated liver values of unknown aetiology to gastroenterologists, leaving gastroenterologists booked out for long periods of time. | 34% | 30% | 19% | 14% | 3% |
General practitioners do not adequately inform gastroenterologists about the tests they perform, the results and/or the diagnoses they have made. | 20% | 43% | 20% | 16% | 1% |
General practitioners are inconsistent in their approach to analysing liver values; this may include varying liver values recorded depending on the general practitioner, so specialists need to keep adjusting to the preliminary work performed by general practitioners. | 35% | 22% | 22% | 20% | 1% |
General practitioners wait too long before referring patients with an elevated liver count of unknown aetiology to a gastroenterologist. | 30% | 27% | 25% | 16% | 2% |