Characteristics of the 18 practices in one primary care group serving a patient population of 137 000
| Number of general practitioner partners in each practice |
| Single handed practices—3 (an additional single handed general practitioner was about to retire, had no practice computer, and declined to be involved) |
| Two partners—2 |
| Three partners—4 |
| Four partners—3 |
| Five partners—2 |
| Six partners—3 |
| Seven partners—1 |
| Setting |
| Urban—14 |
| Rural—4 |
| Computer systems in 1997 |
| 4 practices with Meditel |
| 4 practices with VAMP |
| 3 practices with Microdoc |
| 2 practices with EMIS |
| 2 practices with Update |
| 3 practices with various “do it yourself” software programs |
| Current computer systems |
| 11 practices with LK Global Clinical System (most of the practices that were part of a previous multifund have adopted a single computer system) |
| 2 practices with EMIS (1 with LV for Windows version 1.64 and 1 with V4.3M) |
| 2 practices with Meditel (1 with 5.6.7 and 1 with 5.7) |
| 2 practices with VAMP (1 with Medical 6.0 and 1 with VAMP Vision 2) |
| 1 practice with Microdoc (8.0) |