ICPC has been increasingly used for reporting the activity of family doctors and other primary care practitioners at both national and international level. A brief selection of recent publications is listed below, extracted from a bibliography of approximately 400 publications using ICPC. This bibliography is available through the Wonca web site at www.GlobalFamilyDoctor.com/wicc

Biermans MC, Dekker J, van den Ende CH. Prescription of technical aids by general practitioners in the Netherlands. Health Policy. 2004 Jan.;67(1):107-113.

Bayram C, Britt H, Kelly Z, Valenti L. Male consultations in general practice in Australia 1999-00. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003.

Britt H, Knox S, Miller GC. Changes in pathology ordering by GPs in Australia 1998-2001. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003.

Tahepold H, Maaroos HI, Kalda R, Brink-Muinen A. Structure and duration of consultations in Estonian family practice. Scand J Prim Health Care. 2003 Sept.;21(3):167-170.

Britt H, Miller GC, Knox S, Charles J, Valenti L, Henderson J et al. General practice activity in Australia 2002-03. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003.

Kenter EG, Okkes IM, Oskam SK, Lamberts H. Tiredness in Dutch family practice. Data on patients complaining of and/or diagnosed with "tiredness". Fam Pract. 2003 Aug.;20(4):434-440.

McManus P, Mant A, Mitchell P, Britt H, Dudley J. Use of antidepressants by general practitioners and psychiatrists in Australia. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2003 Apr.;37(2):184-189.

Ijzermans CJ, Mentink S, Klaphake LM, van Grieken JJ, Bindels PJ. [Contacts outside of office hours: complaints presented to the general practitioner and to the emergency department]. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2002 July;146(30):1413-1417.

Okkes IM, Polderman GO, Fryer GE, Yamada T, Bujak M, Oskam SK et al. The role of family practice in different health care systems: a comparison of reasons for encounter, diagnoses, and interventions in primary care populations in the Netherlands, Japan, Poland, and the United States. J Fam Pract. 2002 Jan.;51(1):72-73.

Recart C, Castro P, Alvarez H, Bedregal P. [Characteristics of children and adolescents attended in a private psychiatric outpatient clinic]. Rev Med Chil. 2002 Mar.;130(3):295-303.

O'Mahony B, O'Neill Y, Lynch C, Fennessy M, Lanigan AM, O'Reilly O. Morbidity data collection in general practice: experience in the South Eastern Health Board 1998-1999. Ir Med J. 2001 Nov.;94(10):299-300, 302.

van Bergen JE. [Increased incidence of gonorrhea and Chlamydia trachomatis infections in family practice in southeast Amsterdam, 1996-2000]. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2001 Sept.;145(35):1691-1693.

Brûlet JF, Trombert-Paviot B, Mennerat F, Rodrigues JM. Organisation et codage des données en médecine ambulatoire (Part 1). [Data organisation and coding in ambulatory medicine (Part 1)]. Rev Prat Méd Gén. 2000;14(488):315-319.

Letrilliart L, Viboud C, Boelle PY, Flahault A. Automatic coding of reasons for hospital referral from general medicine free-text reports.[In Process Citation]. Proc AMIA Symp. 2000:487-491.

Reiso H, Nygård JF, Brage S, Gulbrandsen P, Tellnes G. Work ability assessed by patients and their GPs in new episodes of sickness certification. Fam Pract. 2000;17(2):139-144.

Wun Y, Lu X, Liang W, Dickinson J. The work by the developing primary care team in China: a survey in two cities. Fam Pract. 2000;17(1):10-15.

Grimsmo A, Johnsen K. Data-assisted review of medically treated injuries in general practice. Eur J Gen Pract. 1999;5:59-65.

Mennerat F, Lamberts H, Okkes I. Dossier de patient structuré en épisodes et analyse des données en médecine générale. 2. Les perspectives en France. In: Venot A, Falcoff H, editors. L'informatisation du cabinet médical du futur. Informatique et Santé. Paris: Springer-Verlag, 1999: 225-230.

Pult L, Borst F, Sztajel J, Ruiz J, Scherrer JR, Stalder H. Comment classifier les patients en médecine de premier recours? Medecine et hygiene. 1999;57(2270):1799-1804.

Bijl D, Van Sonderen E, Haaijer-Ruskamp FM. Prescription changes and drug costs at the interface between primary and specialist care. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 1998;54(4):333-336.

de Silva N, Mendis K. One-day general practice morbidity survey in Sri Lanka. Fam Pract. 1998;15(4):323-331.

Vehvilainen AT, Kumpusalo EA, Takala JK. Saturday night fever? Reasons for referral from health centres to hospitals during weekends in Finland. Fam Pract. 1998;15(6):507-512.