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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Evaluation of an electronic consultation service for transgender care

Managing COVID-19 related distress in primary care: principles of assessment and management

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an intervention to improve Initial Medication Adherence to treatments for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in primary care: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial and economic model (the IMA-cRCT study)

Authors: Alba Sánchez-Viñas, Carmen Corral-Partearroyo, Montserrat Gil-Girbau, M. Teresa Peñarrubia-María, Carmen Gallardo-González, María-del-Carmen Olmos-Palenzuela, Ignacio Aznar-Lou, Antoni Serrano-Blanco and Maria Rubio-Valera

Content type: Study protocol 5 July 2022
Interprofessional collaboration to support patients with social problems in general practice—a qualitative focus group study

Authors: Thomas Kloppe, Britta Tetzlaff, Claudia Mews, Thomas Zimmermann and Martin Scherer

Content type: Research article 4 July 2022
General practitioners’ views on retaining Singapore’s primary care doctors: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis

Authors: Yang Fang, Michael Soljak, Shawn Lien Ler Tan, Stephen Peckham, Tze Lee Tan and Helen E. Smith

Content type: Research 1 July 2022
Australian general practitioner perceptions to sharing clinical data for secondary use: a mixed method approach

Authors: Richard J. Varhol, Sean Randall, James H. Boyd and Suzanne Robinson

Content type: Research 1 July 2022
Investigating the burden of disease dimensions (time-dependent, developmental, physical, social and emotional) among family caregivers with COVID-19 patients in Iran

Authors: Hojjat Sheikhbardsiri, Asghar Tavan, Parya Jangipour Afshar, Sahar Salahi and Majid Heidari-Jamebozorgi

Content type: Research 30 June 2022

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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
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
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
Localised necrosis of scrotum (Fournier's gangrene) in a spinal cord injury patient – a case report

Authors: Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul M Soni, Peter L Hughes, Paul Mansour, Gurpreet Singh, James Darroch and Tun Oo

Content type: Case report 5 December 2002

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Aims and scope

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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Editor's picks

Evaluation of an electronic consultation service for transgender care

Managing COVID-19 related distress in primary care: principles of assessment and management

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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an intervention to improve Initial Medication Adherence to treatments for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in primary care: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial and economic model (the IMA-cRCT study)

Interprofessional collaboration to support patients with social problems in general practice—a qualitative focus group study

General practitioners’ views on retaining Singapore’s primary care doctors: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis

Australian general practitioner perceptions to sharing clinical data for secondary use: a mixed method approach

Investigating the burden of disease dimensions (time-dependent, developmental, physical, social and emotional) among family caregivers with COVID-19 patients in Iran

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

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

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

Localised necrosis of scrotum (Fournier's gangrene) in a spinal cord injury patient – a case report

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