BMC Primary Care

As of the 1st of January 2022, BMC Family Practice has been re-launched as BMC Primary Care. The journal continues to welcome articles on all aspects of primary health care research. By changing our title, we aim to better reflect our aims and scope to an international audience and in turn offer a better service to our authors. For more information, please see our FAQs page.

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Prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care

Guest Edited by GUP Iloh and Csaba Móczár

The future of primary care: innovations, challenges, and opportunities

Guest Edited by Filipe Prazeres and Mohamud A Verjee

Mental health in primary care

Guest Edited by Marisa Sklar and Courtney Benjamin Wolk

The role of community health workers in primary care

Guest Edited by Indiran Govender, Lisa R Hirschhorn and Joseph Mumba Zulu

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Editor's picks

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Video-telecare collaborative pain management during COVID-19: a single-arm feasibility study

Anxiety management in Australian general practice: an analysis of encounters from 2006 – 2016

Pathways to lung cancer diagnosis among individuals who did not receive lung cancer screening: a qualitative study

Authors: Rachel D. McCarty, Mollie E. Barnard, Katherine A. Lawson-Michod, Makelle Owens, Sarah E. Green, Samantha Derzon, Lea Karabegovic, Wallace L. Akerley, Melissa H. Watt, Jennifer A. Doherty and Laurie Grieshober

Content type: Research 3 October 2023
Primary care during COVID-19 pandemic - a survey to establish clinical needs and lessons learned in infectious respiratory diseases in Spain

Authors: Manuel Linares, Laura Santos Larregola, Pilar Galicia García de Yébenes and Joaquín Santos Galilea

Content type: Research 3 October 2023
Understanding the effect of an educational intervention to optimize HIV testing strategies in primary care in Amsterdam – results of a mixed-methods study

Authors: Saskia Bogers, Pythia Nieuwkerk, Nynke van Dijk, Maarten Schim van der Loeff, Suzanne Geerlings and Jan van Bergen

Content type: Research 30 September 2023
Results from the BETTER WISE trial: a pragmatic cluster two arm parallel randomized controlled trial for primary prevention and screening in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Authors: Donna Patricia Manca, Carolina Fernandes, Aisha Lofters, Kris Aubrey-Bassler, Melissa Shea-Budgell, Denise Campbell-Scherer, Nicolette Sopcak, Christopher Meaney, Rahim Moineddin, Kerry McBrien, Paul Krueger, Tracy Wong and Eva Grunfeld

Content type: Research 28 September 2023
Policy and practices in primary care that supported the provision and receipt of care for older persons during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative case study in three Canadian provinces

Authors: Jacobi Elliott, Catherine Tong, Susie Gregg, Sara Mallinson, Anik Giguere, Meaghan Brierley, Justine Giosa, Maggie MacNeil, Don Juzwishin, Joanie Sims-Gould, Kenneth Rockwood and Paul Stolee

Content type: Research 28 September 2023

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Identification of adults with symptoms suggestive of obstructive airways disease: Validation of a postal respiratory questionnaire

Authors: Timothy L Frank, Peter I Frank, Jennifer A Cropper, Michelle L Hazell, Philip C Hannaford, Roseanne R McNamee, Sybil Hirsch and Charles AC Pickering

Content type: Research article 25 April 2003
High serum alkaline phosphatase levels, a study in 181 Thai adult hospitalized patients

Authors: Viroj Wiwanitkit

Content type: Research article 24 August 2001
A systematic review of chronic disease management interventions in primary care

Authors: Rebecca Reynolds, Sarah Dennis, Iqbal Hasan, Jan Slewa, Winnie Chen, David Tian, Sangeetha Bobba and Nicholas Zwar

Content type: Research article 9 January 2018
Self-medication and non-doctor prescription practices in Pokhara valley, Western Nepal: a questionnaire-based study

Authors: PR Shankar, P Partha and N Shenoy

Content type: Research article 17 September 2002
Evaluation of lifestyle interventions to treat elevated cardiometabolic risk in primary care (E-LITE): a randomized controlled trial

Authors: Jun Ma, Abby C King, Sandra R Wilson, Lan Xiao and Randall S Stafford

Content type: Study protocol 12 November 2009

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BMC Primary Care, previously known as BMC Family Practice, is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of primary health care research. The journal has a special focus on clinical practice and decision-making, continuing professional education, eHealth, health services research in primary care settings, and health promotion.

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Latest collections open to submissions

Prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care

The future of primary care: innovations, challenges, and opportunities

Mental health in primary care

The role of community health workers in primary care

Editor's picks

Video-telecare collaborative pain management during COVID-19: a single-arm feasibility study

Anxiety management in Australian general practice: an analysis of encounters from 2006 – 2016

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Pathways to lung cancer diagnosis among individuals who did not receive lung cancer screening: a qualitative study

Primary care during COVID-19 pandemic - a survey to establish clinical needs and lessons learned in infectious respiratory diseases in Spain

Understanding the effect of an educational intervention to optimize HIV testing strategies in primary care in Amsterdam – results of a mixed-methods study

Results from the BETTER WISE trial: a pragmatic cluster two arm parallel randomized controlled trial for primary prevention and screening in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Policy and practices in primary care that supported the provision and receipt of care for older persons during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative case study in three Canadian provinces

Identification of adults with symptoms suggestive of obstructive airways disease: Validation of a postal respiratory questionnaire

High serum alkaline phosphatase levels, a study in 181 Thai adult hospitalized patients

A systematic review of chronic disease management interventions in primary care

Self-medication and non-doctor prescription practices in Pokhara valley, Western Nepal: a questionnaire-based study

Evaluation of lifestyle interventions to treat elevated cardiometabolic risk in primary care (E-LITE): a randomized controlled trial

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