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  1. Suggested strategies in reducing the impact of non-communicable diseases (NCD) are early diagnosing and screening. We have limited proof of benefit of population screening for NCD. Increased mortality in perso...

    Authors: Pål Jørgensen, Arnulf Langhammer, Steinar Krokstad and Siri Forsmo
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:98
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  2. Australians with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) can access affordable Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) treatments with high cure rates (>90%), via General Practitioners (GPs). Benefits from this treatment will be maxi...

    Authors: Jane Scarborough, Emma Ruth Miller, Paul Aylward and Jaklin Eliott
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:97
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  3. Australian parents/carers of a person with a disability experience higher rates of depression, more financial stress, and are twice as likely to be in poor physical health than the general population. Aborigin...

    Authors: Michelle DiGiacomo, Anna Green, Patricia Delaney, John Delaney, Patrick Patradoon-Ho, Patricia Mary Davidson and Penelope Abbott
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:96
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  4. Recent evidence suggests that screening with low dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans significantly reduces mortality from lung cancer. However, optimal methods to identify potentially eligible patients in pr...

    Authors: Mary Ann O’Brien, Frank Sullivan, Andrea Carson, Rabiya Siddiqui, Saddaf Syed and Lawrence Paszat
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:95
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  5. Despite recent guidelines suggesting that patients with chronic non-malignant pain might not benefit, there has been a significant rise in opioid prescription for chronic non-malignant pain. This topic is impo...

    Authors: Fran Toye, Kate Seers, Stephanie Tierney and Karen Louise Barker
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:94
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  6. Patients as real healthcare system users are important observers of primary care and are able to provide reliable information about the quality of care. The aim of this study was to explore the patients’ exper...

    Authors: Marek Oleszczyk, Anna Krztoń-Królewiecka, Willemijn L. A. Schäfer, Wienke G. W. Boerma and Adam Windak
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:93
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  7. Migrants are more likely to use out-of-hours primary care, especially for nonurgent problems. Their motives and expectations for help-seeking are as yet unknown. The objective of this study is to examine the m...

    Authors: Ellen Keizer, Peter Bakker, Paul Giesen, Michel Wensing, Femke Atsma, Marleen Smits and Maria van den Muijsenbergh
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:92
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  8. Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis and is associated with considerable co-morbidity. It is usually managed in the primary care setting with a combination of lifestyle modification and pharm...

    Authors: Anthony Dowell, Caroline Morris, Lindsay Macdonald and Maria Stubbe
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:91
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  10. Empirical prescribing of antibiotics to women with symptoms of acute cystitis prior to culture results is common, but subsequent culture results are often negative. A clinical decision aid for prescribing deci...

    Authors: Warren J. McIsaac, Rahim Moineddin, Ildikó Gágyor and Tony Mazzulli
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:89
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  11. Family members often play important roles in the lives of depressed older men and frequently attend primary care visits with their loved ones, yet surprisingly little is known about how to most effectively eng...

    Authors: Ladson Hinton, Andrés F. Sciolla, Jürgen Unützer, Edward Elizarraras, Richard L. Kravitz and Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:88
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  12. The Japanese health care system has yet to establish structured training for primary care physicians; therefore, physicians who received an internal medicine based training program continue to play a principal...

    Authors: Makoto Kaneko, Ryuichi Ohta, Naoki Nago, Motoharu Fukushi and Masato Matsushima
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:87
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  13. After hours general practice clinics provide medical attention for clients with non-emergency situations but are seeking immediate treatment and unable to wait for a general practitioner during routine opening...

    Authors: Kristy Payne, Tegan Dutton, Kate Weal, Maree Earle, Ross Wilson and Jannine Bailey
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:86
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  14. Effective management of people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) requires development of new models of care, and successful implementation relies on engagement of general practitioners (GPs). This study used a qua...

    Authors: Thorlene Egerton, Rachel Nelligan, Jenny Setchell, Lou Atkins and Kim L. Bennell
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:85
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  15. The primary care out-of-hours (OOH) services in Norway are characterized by high contact rates by telephone. The telephone contacts are handled by local emergency medical communication centres (LEMCs), mainly ...

    Authors: Vivian Midtbø, Guttorm Raknes and Steinar Hunskaar
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:84
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  16. The diagnostic pathway of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is often complicated. Experiences during this pathway can affect patients’ satisfaction and their confidence and trust in healthcare providers. Although healt...

    Authors: Annette O. A. Plouvier, Tim C. Olde Hartman, Olga A. de Bont, Sjoerd Maandag, Bastiaan R. Bloem, Chris van Weel and Antoine L. M. Lagro-Janssen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:83
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  17. Missed appointments serve as a key indicator for adherence to therapy and as such, identifying patient reasons for this inconsistency could assist in developing programmes to improve health outcomes. In this a...

    Authors: Bvudzai P. Magadzire, Thubelihle Mathole and Kim Ward
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:82
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  18. In many countries, the referral-consultation process faces a number of challenges from inefficiencies and rising demand, resulting in excessive wait times for many specialties. We collected referral data from ...

    Authors: Clare Liddy, Sadaf Arbab-Tafti, Isabella Moroz and Erin Keely
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:81
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  19. Substantial variations are still to be found in the strength of general practice/family medicine (GP/FM) across Europe regarding governance, workforce competence and performance, as well as academic developmen...

    Authors: Natalia Zarbailov, Stefan Wilm, Howard Tandeter, Francesco Carelli and Mette Brekke
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:80
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  20. Diagnostic uncertainty is one of the largest contributory factors to the occurrence of diagnostic errors across most specialties in medicine and arguably uncertainty is greatest in primary care due to the undi...

    Authors: Rahul Alam, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Maria Panagioti, Aneez Esmail, Stephen Campbell and Efharis Panagopoulou
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:79
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  21. Anal disorders are largely underestimated in general practice. Studies have shown patients conceal anal symptoms leading to late diagnosis and treatment. Management by general practitioners is poorly described...

    Authors: Géraldine Tournu, Laurent Abramowitz, Camille Couffignal, Frédéric Juguet, Agnès Sénéjoux, Stéphane Berger, Anne-Laure Wiart, Marc Bernard, Françoise Provost, Hélène Pillant-Le Moult, Dominique Bouchard and Jean-Pierre Aubert
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:78
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Family Practice 2019 20:14

  22. One-in-five people in the UK experience anxiety and/or depression in later life. However, anxiety and depression remain poorly detected in older people, particularly in those with chronic physical ill health. ...

    Authors: Tom Kingstone, Heather Burroughs, Bernadette Bartlam, Mo Ray, Janine Proctor, Thomas Shepherd, Peter Bullock and Carolyn Anne Chew-Graham
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:77
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  23. Blood transfusion in chronic anemia is not covered by guidelines specific to older adults. When they consider that this treatment is necessary in elderly patients, French general practitioners (GPs) contact a ...

    Authors: Sylvain Le Calvé, Dominique Somme, Joaquim Prud’homm and Aline Corvol
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:76
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  24. Improved Primary Health Care (PHC) utilisation is central to reducing the unacceptable morbidity and mortality rates characterising populations living in remote communities. Despite poorer health, significant ...

    Authors: John Wakerman, Lisa Sparrow, Susan L Thomas, John S Humphreys and Mike Jones
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:75
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  25. Overweight and obesity are common health problems which increase the risk of developing several serious health conditions. The main difficulty in the management of weight-loss lies in its maintenance, once it ...

    Authors: Juan Jose Rodriguez-Cristobal, Carlos Alonso-Villaverde, Jose Ma Panisello, Pere Travé-Mercade, Francisca Rodriguez-Cortés, Josep Ramon Marsal and Esther Peña
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:74
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  26. Primary care plays a pivotal role in the provision of both mental health care and chronic disease prevention and screening (CDPS). Unfortunately, moderate mental illness (MMI) is associated with poorer general...

    Authors: Ginetta Salvalaggio, Christopher Meaney, Rahim Moineddin, Eva Grunfeld and Donna Manca
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:73
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  27. Antidepressant prescribing continues to increase, with 5-16% of adults receiving antidepressants annually. Total prescribing growth is due in part to increased long-term use, greater selective serotonin re-upt...

    Authors: Chris F. Johnson, Brian Williams, Stephen A. MacGillivray, Nadine J. Dougall and Margaret Maxwell
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:72
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  28. Depression is more prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF) than in those without, but its detection is complicated by the symptom overlap between the two diseases. General practitioners (GPs) are the fir...

    Authors: Marion Eisele, Anja Rakebrandt, Sigrid Boczor, Agata Kazek, Nadine Pohontsch, Magdalena Okolo-Kulak, Eva Blozik, Jens-Martin Träder, Stefan Störk, Christoph Herrmann-Lingen and Martin Scherer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:71
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  30. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is now widely used in clinical encounters. Because its use can negatively impact the physician-patient relationship, several recommendations on the “patient-centered” use of ...

    Authors: Cédric Lanier, Melissa Dominicé Dao, Patricia Hudelson, Bernard Cerutti and Noëlle Junod Perron
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:69
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  31. Patients from rural and urban regions should have equitable access to health care. In Germany, the physician-patient-ratio and the supply of medical services vary greatly between urban and rural areas. The aim...

    Authors: H. Hansen, N. J. Pohontsch, L. Bole, I. Schäfer and M. Scherer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:68
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  32. Reducing unplanned hospital admissions is a key priority within the UK and other healthcare systems, however it remains uncertain how this can be achieved. This paper explores the relationship between unplanne...

    Authors: John Busby, Sarah Purdy and William Hollingworth
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:67
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  33. Rising dementia prevalence rates rise combined with the policy objective of enabling people with dementia to remain living at home, means that there will be a growing demand for dementia care in the community ...

    Authors: Tony Foley, Siobhán Boyle, Aisling Jennings and W. Henry Smithson
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:66
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  34. Lyme disease (LD), a multisystem infection caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (B. burgdorferi), is the most reported vector-borne disease in North America, and by 2020, 80% of the populat...

    Authors: Salima Gasmi, Nicholas H. Ogden, Patrick A. Leighton, Ariane Adam-Poupart, François Milord, L. Robbin Lindsay, Sapha Barkati and Karine Thivierge
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:65
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  36. Good physician-patient communication can favor the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits, which is essential in high blood pressure (BP) management. More empathic physicians tend to have lower burnout and bette...

    Authors: Oriol Yuguero, Josep Ramon Marsal, Montserrat Esquerda and Jorge Soler-González
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:63
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  37. In the Netherlands, out-of-hours primary care is provided in general practitioner-cooperatives (GPCs). These are increasingly located on site and in collaboration with emergency departments of hospitals (ED). ...

    Authors: Martijn Rutten, Fieke Vrielink, Marleen Smits and Paul Giesen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:62
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  39. Our aim was to investigate patterns of health care resource use by patients before and after a diagnosis of CFS/ME, as recorded by Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GP practices in the UK.

    Authors: Simon M. Collin, Inger J. Bakken, Irwin Nazareth, Esther Crawley and Peter D. White
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:60
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  40. Social change, intensified by industrialization and globalization, has not only changed people’s work lives but also their personal lives, especially in developing countries. The aim of this study was to provi...

    Authors: Yao Cheng, Liuyi Zhang, Fang Wang, Ping Zhang, Beizhu Ye and Yuan Liang
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:59
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  42. Primary health-care professionals play an important role in the treatment and prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). Continuing Medical Education (CME)-courses can influence the knowledge and beh...

    Authors: Linda H. A. Bos-Bonnie, Jan E. A. M. van Bergen, Ellen te Pas, Michael A. Kijser and Nynke van Dijk
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:57
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  43. Depression is a common health condition affecting up to a third of patients attending primary care, where most of the care for people with depression is provided. Adequate recognition of depression is the crit...

    Authors: Abebaw Fekadu, Girmay Medhin, Medhin Selamu, Tedla W. Giorgis, Crick Lund, Atalay Alem, Martin Prince and Charlotte Hanlon
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:56
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  44. Medical certificates influence the distribution of economic benefits in welfare states; however, the qualitative aspects of these texts remain largely unexplored. The present study is the first systematic inve...

    Authors: Guri Aarseth, Bård Natvig, Eivind Engebretsen and Anne Kveim Lie
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:55
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  45. Physicians’ clinical decision-making may be influenced by non‐analytical thinking, especially when perceiving uncertainty. Incidental gut feelings in general practice have been described, namely, as “a sense o...

    Authors: Marie Barais, Johannes Hauswaldt, Daniel Hausmann, Slawomir Czachowski, Agnieszka Sowinska, Paul Van Royen and Erik Stolper
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:54
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  46. Much research worldwide is focussed on cost containment and better adherence to guidelines in healthcare. The research focussing on professional behaviour is often performed in a well-controlled research setti...

    Authors: J. Trietsch, B. van Steenkiste, R. Grol, B. Winkens, H. Ulenkate, J. Metsemakers and T. van der Weijden
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:53
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  47. Swiss primary care (PC) is facing workforce shortage. Up to 2011 this workforce was supplied by two board certifications: general medicine and internal medicine. To strengthen them against subspecialties, they...

    Authors: Nathalie Scherz, Stefan Markun, Vera Aemissegger, Thomas Rosemann and Ryan Tandjung
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:52
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  48. Multimorbidity is a major issue for primary care. We aimed to explore primary care professionals’ accounts of managing multimorbidity and its impact on clinical decision making and regional health care delivery.

    Authors: Tim Stokes, Emma Tumilty, Fiona Doolan-Noble and Robin Gauld
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:51
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  49. Early diagnosis and treatment of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) can prevent future health problems, yet many individuals with these conditions are undiagnosed. This could be due, in part, to p...

    Authors: Dina Hafez, Daniel B. Nelson, Evan G. Martin, Alicia J. Cohen, Rebecca Northway and Jeffrey T. Kullgren
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:50
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  50. Municipal drinking water contaminated with the parasite Giardia lamblia in Bergen, Norway, in 2004 caused an outbreak of gastrointestinal infection in 2500 people, according to the Norwegian Prescription Database...

    Authors: Eva Stormorken, Leonard A. Jason and Marit Kirkevold
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2017 18:49
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