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Prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care
Guest Editors:
Gup Iloh: Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, and Rhema University, Nigeria
Csaba Móczár: Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Submission Status: Open until 28 May 2024
The future of primary care: innovations, challenges, and opportunities
Guest Editors:
Filipe Prazeres: University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Mohamud A Verjee: Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar
Submission Status: Open until 20 May 2024
Mental health in primary care
Guest Editors:
Marisa Sklar: IN STEP Children’s Mental Health Research Center, UC San Diego ACTRI Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC), Child & Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC), University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
Courtney Benjamin Wolk: Penn Center for Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Implementation Research at the Penn Implementation Science Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
Submission Status: Open until 17 April 2024
The role of community health workers in primary care
Guest Editors:
Indiran Govender: Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Gauteng Province, South Africa
Lisa R Hirschhorn, MD MPH: Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, United States
Joseph Mumba Zulu: School of Public Health, University of Zambia, Zambia
Submission Status: Open until 12 February 2024
Frailty in primary care
Guest Editors:
Kristiana Ludlow: Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Queensland, Australia
Natasha Reid: Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Queensland, Australia
Oliver M Todd: Clinical Lecturer, Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Hakan Yaman: Anatolia Hospital, Hakan Yaman, Türkiye
Submission Status: Open until 20 December 2023
Outpatient management of the kidney patient for the primary care practitioner
Guest Editors:
Bernard G Jaar, MD, MPH: Nephrologist, Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Sumeska Thavarajah: Nephrologist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
David S. Weisman: Associate Program Director, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Georgetown School of Medicine, Washington, DC
Submission status: Open until 09 December 2023
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Multimorbidity in primary care
Guest Editors:
Lloyd D Hughes: NHS Tayside, United Kingdom
Filipe Prazeres: University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Ingmar Schäfer: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Jean Karl Soler: European General Practice Research Network, Malta
2015
Thematic Series
Impact of Comorbidity and multimorbidity on primary care practice
BMC Family Practice
This ongoing thematic series will examine the breadth of comorbidity and multimorbidity research and their impact on clinical practice. We invite contributions reporting different research methods to add to the literature, including clinical trials, epidemiological and qualitative studies.
Edited by Dr. Carolyn Chew-Graham
Last updated: 24 November 2015
Cross Journal Collection
The Many Meanings of 'Quality' in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspective
Edited by: Dr Deborah Swinglehurst
Collection published: 23 April 2015
Last updated: 3 July 2015
2014
Cross Journal Collection
Reviewer Acknowledgements 2013
Collection published: 26 February 2014
Last updated: 31 March 2014
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