Issue 1/2005
Content (52 Articles)
Health care restructuring and family physician care for those who died of cancer
Frederick I Burge, Beverley Lawson, Grace Johnston, Gordon Flowerdew
Assessment of dizziness among older patients at a family practice clinic: a chart audit study
Eugene CK Kwong, Nicholas JG Pimlott
Accuracy of parents in measuring body temperature with a tympanic thermometer
Joan L Robinson, Hsing Jou, Donald W Spady
General practitioners' reasoning when considering the diagnosis heart failure: a think-aloud study
Ylva Skånér, Lars Backlund, Henry Montgomery, Johan Bring, Lars-Erik Strender
Influence of intense multidisciplinary follow-up and orlistat on weight reduction in a primary care setting
Amiel Feigenbaum, Shmuel Pasternak, Efrat Zusk, Miri Sarid, Shlomo Vinker
Influence of patient symptoms and physical findings on general practitioners' treatment of respiratory tract infections: a direct observation study
Thomas Fischer, Susanne Fischer, Michael M Kochen, Eva Hummers-Pradier
Evaluation of an education and activation programme to prevent chronic shoulder complaints: design of an RCT [ISRCTN71777817]
Camiel De Bruijn, Rob de Bie, Jacques Geraets, Marielle Goossens, Albère Köke, Wim van den Heuvel, Geert van der Heijden, Geert-Jan Dinant
Oral vitamin B12therapy in the primary care setting: a qualitative and quantitative study of patient perspectives
Jeff C Kwong, David Carr, Irfan A Dhalla, Denise Tom-Kun, Ross EG Upshur
General practitioner attitudes to the care of people with epilepsy: an examination of clustering within practices and prediction of patient-rated quality of care
Ajay K Thapar, Martin O Roland
Health care reform and job satisfaction of primary health care physicians in Lithuania
Ilona Buciuniene, Aurelija Blazeviciene, Egle Bliudziute
Patient preferences for notification of normal laboratory test results: A report from the ASIPS Collaborative
Donna M Baldwin, Javán Quintela, Christine Duclos, Elizabeth W Staton, Wilson D Pace
Family physicians' involvement and self-reported comfort and skill in care of children with behavioral and emotional problems: a population-based survey
Anton R Miller, Charlotte Johnston, Anne F Klassen, Stuart Fine, Michael Papsdorf
Trends in the prevalence and management of diagnosed type 2 diabetes 1994–2001 in England and Wales
Simon de Lusignan, Charalambos Sismanidis, Iain M Carey, Stephen DeWilde, Nicky Richards, Derek G Cook
Identifying future models for delivering genetic services: a nominal group study in primary care
Glyn Elwyn, Adrian Edwards, Rachel Iredale, Peter Davies, Jonathon Gray
Psychiatric outpatient consultation for seniors. Perspectives of family physicians, consultants, and patients / family: A descriptive study
Mark J Yaffe, Francois Primeau, Jane McCusker, Martin G Cole, Eric Belzile, Nandini Dendukuri, Michel Elie, Johanne Laplante
Clinically diagnosed childhood asthma and follow-up of symptoms in a Swedish case control study
Eduardo Roel, Åshild Faresjö, Olle Zetterström, Erik Trell, Tomas Faresjö
Frequency of alcohol use and obesity in community medicine patients
James E Rohrer, Barbara M Rohland, Anne Denison, Anthony Way
General Practitioners' opinions on their practice in mental health and their collaboration with mental health professionals
Nadia Younes, Isabelle Gasquet, Pierre Gaudebout, Marie-Pierre Chaillet, Viviane Kovess, Bruno Falissard, Marie-Christine Hardy Bayle
Perceived barriers for treatment of chronic heart failure in general practice; are they affecting performance?
Willeke N Kasje, Petra Denig, Pieter A de Graeff, Flora M Haaijer-Ruskamp
GPs' perspectives of type 2 diabetes patients' adherence to treatment: A qualitative analysis of barriers and solutions
Johan Wens, Etienne Vermeire, Paul Van Royen, Bernard Sabbe, Joke Denekens
General practitioners' conceptions about treatment of depression and factors that may influence their practice in this area. A postal survey
Stig J Andersson, Margareta Troein, Gunnar Lindberg
Physicians perceived usefulness of high-cost diagnostic imaging studies: results of a referral study in a German medical quality network
Antonius Schneider, Thomas Rosemann, Michel Wensing, Joachim Szecsenyi
Follow-up care by patient's own general practitioner after contact with out-of-hours care. A descriptive study
Caro JT van Uden, Paul J Zwietering, Sjoerd O Hobma, Andre JHA Ament, Geertjan Wesseling, Onno CP van Schayck, Harry FJM Crebolder
PSA testing for prostate cancer: an online survey of the views and reported practice of General Practitioners in the UK
Jo Brett, Eila Watson, Paul Hewitson, Colleen Bukach, Adrian Edwards, Glyn Elwyn, Joan Austoker
The DiGEM trial protocol – a randomised controlled trial to determine the effect on glycaemic control of different strategies of blood glucose self-monitoring in people with type 2 diabetes [ISRCTN47464659]
Andrew Farmer, Alisha Wade, David P French, Elizabeth Goyder, Ann Louise Kinmonth, Andrew Neil
The effect of illustrations on patient comprehension of medication instruction labels
Stephen W Hwang, Carolyn QN Tram, Nadia Knarr
Benzodiazepine prescribing behaviour and attitudes: a survey among general practitioners practicing in northern Thailand
Manit Srisurapanont, Paul Garner, Julia Critchley, Nahathai Wongpakaran
Correlation of same-visit HbA1c test with laboratory-based measurements: A MetroNet study
Kendra L Schwartz, Joseph C Monsur, Monina G Bartoces, Patricia A West, Anne Victoria Neale
Pragmatic application of a clinical prediction rule in primary care to identify patients with low back pain with a good prognosis following a brief spinal manipulation intervention
Julie M Fritz, John D Childs, Timothy W Flynn
Patients' views on outcome following head injury: a qualitative study
Paul Graham Morris, Lindsay Prior, Shoumitro Deb, Glyn Lewis, Wendy Mayle, Caroline E Burrow, Eleanor Bryant
Preconception care by family physicians and general practitioners in Japan
Kazuya Kitamura, Michael D Fetters, Nobutaro Ban
Assessing, treating and preventing community acquired pneumonia in older adults: findings from a community-wide survey of emergency room and family physicians
Paul Krueger, Mark Loeb, Caralyn Kelly, H Gayle Edward
The definition of disabling fatigue in children and adolescents
Tom Fowler, Pamela Duthie, Anita Thapar, Anne Farmer
Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic use versus a standard approach for acute respiratory tract infections in primary care: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial and baseline characteristics of participating general practitioners [ISRCTN73182671]
Matthias Briel, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Jim Young, Philipp Schuetz, Peter Huber, Pierre Périat, Heiner C Bucher, Beat Müller
A randomized trial of mail vs. telephone invitation to a community-based cardiovascular health awareness program for older family practice patients [ISRCTN61739603]
Tina Karwalajtys, Janusz Kaczorowski, Larry W Chambers, Cheryl Levitt, Lisa Dolovich, Bea McDonough, Christopher Patterson, James E Williams
Signs and symptoms in children with a serious infection: a qualitative study
Ann Van den Bruel, Rudi Bruyninckx, Etienne Vermeire, Peter Aerssens, Bert Aertgeerts, Frank Buntinx
Implementing evidence-based medicine in general practice: a focus group based study
Karin Hannes, Marcus Leys, Etienne Vermeire, Bert Aertgeerts, Frank Buntinx, Anne-Marie Depoorter
Avoidance as a strategy of (not) coping: qualitative interviews with carers of Huntington's Disease patients
Alison Lowit, Edwin R van Teijlingen
A qualitative study of the impact of the implementation of advanced access in primary healthcare on the working lives of general practice staff
Sanjiv Ahluwalia, Maxine Offredy
Length of patient-physician relationship and patients' satisfaction and preventive service use in the rural south: a cross-sectional telephone study
Katrina E Donahue, Evan Ashkin, Donald E Pathman
The future prospects of Lithuanian family physicians: a 10-year forecasting study
Liudvika Starkiene, Kastytis Smigelskas, Zilvinas Padaiga, Jack Reamy
Frequent attenders in general practice: problem solving treatment provided by nurses [ISRCTN51021015]
B Schreuders, P van Oppen, HWJ van Marwijk, JH Smit, WAB Stalman
Satisfaction is not all – patients' perceptions of outcome of general practice consultations, a qualitative study
Annika Andén, Sven-Olof Andersson, Carl-Edvard Rudebeck
The epidemiology of suicide and attempted suicide in Dutch general practice 1983–2003
Richard L Marquet, Aad IM Bartelds, Ad JFM Kerkhof, François G Schellevis, Jouke van der Zee
Effects of screening and brief intervention training on resident and faculty alcohol intervention behaviours: a pre- post-intervention assessment
J Paul Seale, Sylvia Shellenberger, John M Boltri, IS Okosun, Barbara Barton
Reasons for and consequences of missed appointments in general practice in the UK: questionnaire survey and prospective review of medical records
Richard D Neal, Mahvash Hussain-Gambles, Victoria L Allgar, Debbie A Lawlor, Owen Dempsey
How and why community hospital clinicians document a positive screen for intimate partner violence: a cross-sectional study
Megan R Gerber, Karen S Leiter, Richard C Hermann, David H Bor
Primary healthcare provision and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a survey of patients' and General Practitioners' beliefs
Marie A Thomas, Andrew P Smith
A rare case of disseminated cutaneous zoster in an immunocompetent patient
S Gupta, A Jain, C Gardiner, SK Tyring
Difficulties associated with outpatient management of drug abusers by general practitioners. A cross-sectional survey of general practitioners with and without methadone patients in Switzerland
Anne Pelet, Jacques Besson, Alain Pécoud, Bernard Favrat
Chaperone use during intimate examinations in primary care: postal survey of family physicians
David H Price, C Shawn Tracy, Ross EG Upshur