... activity, working area, population of working city, and distance between their office and the nearest university hospital ICU In addition, information concerning the number of patients per year, the ... Cite this article as: Etesse et al., How the relationships between general practitioners and intensivists can be improved: the general practitioners' point of view Critical Care 2010, 14:R112 ... emergency departments Afilalo et al [20] showed that the use of a standardized community system between family GPs and emergency departments increases the quality of transferred information and improves...