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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Care of Transgender Patients: A General Practice Quality Improvement Approach.

Isabel Boyd, Thomas Hackett, Susan Bewley

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Psychodynamic psychotherapy for gender dysphoria is not conversion therapy.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2024
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  19. The Detransition Rate Is Unknown.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023
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  20. Gender detransition: A critical review of the literature.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Isabel BoydFalmouth and Penryn Primary Care Network, C/O Penryn Surgery, Saracen Way, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 8HX, UK.
Thomas HackettPenryn Surgery, Saracen Way, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 8HX, UK.
Susan BewleyDepartment of Women and Children's Health, School of Life Course and Population Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary care must ensure high quality lifelong care is offered to trans and gender minority patients who are known to have poor health and adverse healthcare experiences. This quality improvement project aimed to interrogate and audit the data of trans and gender minority patients in one primary care population in England. A new data collection instrument was created examining pathways of care, assessments and interventions undertaken, monitoring, and complications. General practitioners identified a sample from the patient population and then performed an audit to examine against an established standard of care. No appropriate primary care audit standard was found. There was inconsistency between multiple UK gender identity clinics' (GIC) individual recommended schedules of care and between specialty guidelines. Using an international, secondary care, evidence-informed guideline, it appeared that up to two-thirds of patients did not receive all recommended monitoring standards, largely due to inconsistencies between GIC and international guidance. It is imperative that an evidence-based primary care guideline is devised alongside measurable standards. Given the findings of long waits, high rates of medical complexity, and some undesired treatment outcomes (including a fifth of patients stopping hormones of whom more than half cited regret or detransition experiences), this small but population-based quality improvement approach should be replicated and expanded upon at scale.

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gender dysphoriageneral practiceprimary caretransgender

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PMID35052285
PMCPMC8775415

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