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Effects of Electronic Communication in General Practice
There is a continuous growth in the number of different physicians involved in the
treatment of an individual patient. This increase is caused by the growing
specialization of physicians in particular fields, by the increasing number of
physicians that work part time, and by transmuralization. With
transmuralization is meant the trend to place expensive hospital care partly outside
the hospital, whereby general practitioners and specialised nurses fulfill an
essential role. Another important cause for the increasing number of physicians
is that the average patient becomes much older than before, with the chance of
getting more often confronted with different disorders and therefore also with
different specialists. The increase in the number of physicians results in a growing
need for good communication to guarantee the quality of care