Referral processes and wait times in primary care.

Objective: To evaluate the response times to requests for consultations from FPs and the wait times for patient appointments.

Design: Mailed invitation to participate in a survey about non-FP specialist consultation requests from April 28 to May 9, 2014.

Setting: Hamilton, Ont.

Role of family physicians in an urban hospital: Tracking changes between 1977, 1997, and 2014.

Objective: To investigate changes in family doctors' attitudes about and participation in hospital activities and inpatient care in an urban hospital family medicine department from 1977 to 1997 and 2014.

Design: Cross-sectional survey design.

Setting: The Department of Family Medicine at St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton in Ontario.

Self-reported physician adherence to guidelines for measuring blood pressure.

Background: Diagnosis of hypertension, treatment, and follow-up depend on accurate measurement. This research study attempted to determine whether family physicians are all measuring blood pressure (BP) according to Canadian guidelines.

Methods: A short survey was mailed to all physicians within the Department of Family Medicine, St.