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To validate a census-based underprivileged area scoring system against general practitioners' direct assessments of community workload and service pressure.

December 8, 1984BMJOpen Access

Underprivileged areas: validation and distribution of scores.

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BJB JarmanUniversity of London

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Validation study demonstrates strong agreement between census deprivation scores and physician workload maps in England and Wales, indicating their utility for primary care resource planning.

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To validate a census-based underprivileged area scoring system against general practitioners' direct assessments of community workload and service pressure.
Derived weights for social census variables from a national survey sent to one in 10 general practitioners in the United Kingdom to score 9,265 electoral wards in England and Wales.
Collected independent workload pressure maps shaded by general practitioners across five family practitioner committee areas.
Compared score-generated classification maps against the physician-shaded maps using identical category cutoffs for high, intermediate, and low workload areas.
Across all five family practitioner committee areas, 6.3% of electoral wards showed a discrepancy in shading between score-based maps and practitioner workload maps.
In three areas where practitioners shaded complete wards without reporting mapping difficulties, the discrepancy between the two map sets dropped to 1.2%.

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B Jarman (1984) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0e1ab4370e1ecbafd08bc2 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.289.6458.1587

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Validation study demonstrates strong agreement between census deprivation scores and physician workload maps in England and Wales, indicating their utility for primary care resource planning.

Underprivileged areas: validation and distribution of scores.

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Underprivileged areas: validation and distribution of scores.

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