Introduction: Improvement of the quality of exchanges between primary care and hospital medicine is a major challenge for continuity of care in France. The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of communication of information to general practitioners concerning the management of patients attending a university hospital emergency department.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective study was based on the medical charts of 602 patients consulting the Angers university hospital emergency department, using an evaluation grid of discharge summaries associated with a survey of general practitioners, by postal questionnaire, concerning the time to reception, the content and the mode of transmission of these discharge summaries.
Objective: Medical demography and the geographical distribution of general practitioners (GPs) in the Pays de la Loire Region constitute a challenge to equitable primary care access. The objective of this study was to describe the career projects of Angers general practice residents in 2012 and to assess their knowledge of installation aids and their impact on practice choices.
Method: A questionnaire-based declarative study was conducted in April 2012.