Willingness of general practitioners to participate in enhanced primary care discharge care planning

• 1 School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009
• 2 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners — Western Australian Faculty, Perth, WA
• 3 Department of General Medicine, Fremantle Hospital and Health Services, Perth, WA.

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