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  1. Interprofessionalism, considered as collaboration between medical professionals, has gained prominence over recent decades and evidence for its impact has grown. The steadily increasing number of residents in ...

    Authors: Nina Fleischmann, Britta Tetzlaff, Jochen Werle, Christina Geister, Martin Scherer, Siegfried Weyerer, Eva Hummers-Pradier and Christiane A. Mueller
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:123
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. The social determinants of health (SDH) are conditions that shape the overall health of an individual on a continuous basis. As momentum for addressing social factors in primary care settings grows, provider a...

    Authors: Joy H. Lewis, Kate Whelihan, Isaac Navarro and Kimberly R. Boyle
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:121
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  3. No study has assessed the association between patients’ and doctors’ gender and patient satisfaction with organizational aspects of health care in primary care. However, just like satisfaction regarding commun...

    Authors: Paul Sebo, François R. Herrmann and Dagmar M. Haller
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:120
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  5. In 2006 The Dutch Health Care system changed to a market oriented system. The GP remuneration changed from ± 2/3 capitation patients and 1/3 private patients before 2006 to a mixed payment scheme. From 2006 on...

    Authors: Pieter van den Hombergh, Arna van Doorn-Klomberg, Stephen Campbell, Michel Wensing and Jozé Braspenning
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:118
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  6. Failing to assess elderly patients for functional decline at the time around a minor injury may result in adverse health outcomes. This study was conducted to define what constitutes clinically significant fun...

    Authors: Kasim E. Abdulaziz, Jamie Brehaut, Monica Taljaard, Marcel Émond, Marie-Josée Sirois, Jacques S. Lee, Laura Wilding and Jeffrey J. Perry
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:117
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  8. Despite primary health care being recognised as an ideal setting to effectively respond to those experiencing family violence, responses are not widely integrated as part of routine health care. A lack of evid...

    Authors: Claire Gear, Jane Koziol-McLain, Denise Wilson and Faye Clark
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:115
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  9. Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis. It is associated with substantial co-morbidity and often managed in primary care. A greater understanding of the communication process between patients a...

    Authors: Caroline Morris, Lindsay Macdonald, Maria Stubbe and Anthony Dowell
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:114
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  10. Macrocytic anaemia (MCV ≥ 100 fL) is a relatively common finding in general practice. However, literature on the prevalence of the different causes in this population is limited. The prevalence of macrocytic a...

    Authors: Karlijn Stouten, Jurgen A. Riedl, Jolanda Droogendijk, Rob Castel, Joost van Rosmalen, Ron J. van Houten, Paul Berendes, Pieter Sonneveld and Mark-David Levin
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:113
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  11. COPD-6™ is a lung function testing device for a rapid pre-spirometry testing to screen-out at-risk individuals not having COPD and indicating those at risk. The aim of this study was to validate COPD-6™ lung f...

    Authors: Marina Labor, Žarko Vrbica, Ivan Gudelj, Slavica Labor and Davor Plavec
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:112
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  12. Cramps are involuntary painful muscle contractions that mainly affect older people. Cramps may cause severe pain and sleep disturbance. Little information exists on the prevalence and the main features of cram...

    Authors: Hubert Maisonneuve, Juliette Chambe, Chloé Delacour, Joris Muller, Fabien Rougerie, Dagmar M. Haller and Michel Leveque
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:111
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  13. Cholesterol-lowering therapy with statins is recommended in established cardiovascular disease (CVD) and should be considered for patients at high cardiovascular risk. We surveyed statin treatment before first...

    Authors: Gunnar Nilsson, Eva Samuelsson, Lars Söderström and Thomas Mooe
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:110
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  14. Potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) is common in older people in primary care, as evidenced by a significant body of quantitative research. However, relatively few qualitative studies have investigated...

    Authors: Barbara Clyne, Janine A. Cooper, Carmel M. Hughes, Tom Fahey and Susan M. Smith
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:109
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  15. Reinforcing the gatekeeping role of general practitioners (GPs) by embedding specialist knowledge into primary care is seen as a possibility for stimulating a more sustainable healthcare system and avoiding un...

    Authors: Sofie J. M. van Hoof, Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg, Mariëlle E. A. L. Kroese, Jessie Steevens, Ronald J. Meerlo, Monique M. H. Hanraets and Dirk Ruwaard
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:108
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  16. Guidelines on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reassessment intervals are unclear, potentially leading to detrimental practice variation: too frequent can result in overtreatment and greater strain on the hea...

    Authors: Shannon McKinn, Carissa Bonner, Jesse Jansen, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Matthew So, Les Irwig, Jenny Doust, Paul Glasziou and Kirsten McCaffery
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:107
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  17. Personality disorder (PD) is associated with elevated suicide risk, but the level of risk in primary care settings is unknown. We assessed whether PD among primary care patients is linked with a greater elevat...

    Authors: Michael Doyle, David While, Pearl L. H. Mok, Kirsten Windfuhr, Darren M. Ashcroft, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Louis Appleby, Jenny Shaw and Roger T. Webb
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:106
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  18. International evidence suggests that dementia is under–diagnosed in the community and that General Practitioners (GPs) are often reluctant to engage to their fullest capability with patients who exhibit cognit...

    Authors: Ron L. Mason, Michael J. Annear, Amanda Lo, Fran McInerney, Laura T. Tierney and Andrew L. Robinson
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:105
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  19. Adolescence and young adulthood are important developmental periods. Screening for health compromising behaviours and mental health disorders during routine primary care visits has the potential to assist clin...

    Authors: Marianne J. Webb, Sylvia D. Kauer, Elizabeth M. Ozer, Dagmar M. Haller and Lena A. Sanci
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:104
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  20. Family physicians and other primary care practitioners are encouraged or expected to screen for an expanding array of concerns and problems including intimate partner violence (IPV). While there is no debate a...

    Authors: John D. McLennan and Harriet L. MacMillan
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:103
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  21. Many instruments have been developed to identify frail older adults in primary care. A direct comparison of the accuracy and prevalence of identification methods is rare and most studies ignore the stepped sel...

    Authors: Fleur L. Sutorius, Emiel O. Hoogendijk, Bernard A. H. Prins and Hein P. J. van Hout
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:102
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  22. Childhood vaccination remains a primary mechanism for reducing the burden of infectious disease. In the United Kingdom, as in many countries, a sustained effort is required to ensure that vaccination targets a...

    Authors: Saumu Lwembe, Stuart A. Green, Nuttan Tanna, Jane Connor, Colin Valler and Ruth Barnes
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:101
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  23. Consultations involving patients with multiple somatic symptoms may be considered as challenging and time-consuming by general practitioners (GPs). Yet, little is known about the possible links between consult...

    Authors: Mette T. Rask, Anders H. Carlsen, Anna Budtz-Lilly and Marianne Rosendal
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:100
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  24. In 2010 policy changes were introduced to the Australian healthcare system that granted nurse practitioners access to the public health insurance scheme (Medicare) subject to a collaborative arrangement with a...

    Authors: Verena Schadewaldt, Elizabeth McInnes, Janet E. Hiller and Anne Gardner
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:99
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  25. In Germany, the coverage of officially recommended vaccinations for the elderly is below a desirable level. It is known that advice provided by General Practitioners and Physician Assistants influences the upt...

    Authors: Carolina Judith Klett-Tammen, Gérard Krause, Thomas von Lengerke and Stefanie Castell
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:98
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  28. Continuing medical education (CME) in earlier cancer diagnosis was launched in Denmark in 2012 as part of the Danish National Cancer Plan. The CME programme was introduced to improve the recognition among gene...

    Authors: Berit Skjødeberg Toftegaard, Flemming Bro, Alina Zalounina Falborg and Peter Vedsted
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:95
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  29. An increase in a patient’s visits to doctors usually raises concerns and may be a ‘red flag’ for a patient’s deterioration of health. The aim of this study was to analyze whether an increase of patient-physici...

    Authors: Johannes Hauswaldt, Eva Hummers-Pradier and Wolfgang Himmel
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:94
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  30. Based on changes in pharmacokinetics and –dynamics in elderly patients, there are potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) that should be avoided in patients aged ≥ 65 years. Current studies showed prescrip...

    Authors: Karen Voigt, Mandy Gottschall, Juliane Köberlein-Neu, Jeannine Schübel, Nadine Quint and Antje Bergmann
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:93
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  31. Clinical guidelines for single diseases often pose problems in general practice work with multimorbid patients. However, little research focuses on how general practice is affected by the demand to follow multipl...

    Authors: Bjarne Austad, Irene Hetlevik, Bente Prytz Mjølstad and Anne-Sofie Helvik
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:92
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  32. In response to growing demand for urgent care services there is a need to implement more effective strategies in primary care to support patients with complex care needs. Improving primary care management of k...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Morris, Darren Ashcroft, Denham Phipps, Peter Bower, Donal O’Donoghue, Paul Roderick, Sarah Harding, Andrew Lewington and Thomas Blakeman
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:91
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  33. The pathological mechanisms of lumbar spinal stenosis are unclear. Family doctors in the primary care setting may perform medical examinations of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. Our aim was to use the pa...

    Authors: Naoto Takahashi, Osamu Shirado, Kazuki Kobayashi, Ryosuke Mashiko and Shin-ichi Konno
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:90
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  34. At least 10 % of patients seen in primary care are said to have a condition in which genetics has an influence. However, patients at risk of genetic disease may not be recognised, while those who seek advice m...

    Authors: Milena Paneque, Daniela Turchetti, Leigh Jackson, Peter Lunt, Elisa Houwink and Heather Skirton
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:89
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  35. Parents caring for a child affected by a rare disease have unmet needs, the origins of which are complex and varied. Our aim was to determine the supportive care needs of parents caring for a child with a rare...

    Authors: Lemuel J. Pelentsov, Andrea L. Fielder, Thomas A. Laws and Adrian J. Esterman
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:88
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  36. General Practice Co-Operatives provide most out of hours care in communities in Ireland. Limited data exists on patient complaints. This study reports on complaints at Kildare and West Wicklow Doctors on Call ...

    Authors: Ruth A. Barragry, Leo E. Varadkar, David K. Hanlon, Ken F. Bailey, Tom C. O’Dowd and Brendan J. O’Shea
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:87
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  37. Multiple diagnostic algorithms for heart failure exist. However, it is unclear whether these algorithms are incorporated in the ‘scripts’ clinicians use in every day practice. Scripts are networks of organised...

    Authors: Klaartje Decaluwe, Jan Degryse and Bert Vaes
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:86
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  38. Low participation rates among ethnic minorities in preventive healthcare services are worrisome and not well understood. The objective of this study was to explore how adults of Turkish and Moroccan origin liv...

    Authors: Andrea J. Bukman, Dorit Teuscher, Jamila Ben Meftah, Iris Groenenberg, Mathilde R. Crone, Sandra van Dijk, Marieke B. Bos and Edith J. M. Feskens
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:85
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  39. The general practice (GP) workforce in England is in crisis, with declining morale and job satisfaction, increasing early retirement and declining interest in training to become a GP. We recently reported on f...

    Authors: Jeremy Dale, Rachel Potter, Katherine Owen and Jonathan Leach
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:84
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  40. Interprofessional Primary Care Teams (IPCTs) have been shown to benefit health systems and patients, particularly those patients with complex care needs. The literature suggests a wide range of factors that ma...

    Authors: Gillian Mulvale, Mark Embrett and Shaghayegh Donya Razavi
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:83
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  41. In Australia, general practitioners (GPs) see around two-thirds of people injured in road traffic crashes. Road traffic crash injuries are commonly associated with diverse physical and psychological symptoms t...

    Authors: Bianca Brijnath, Samantha Bunzli, Ting Xia, Nabita Singh, Peter Schattner, Alex Collie, Michele Sterling and Danielle Mazza
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:82
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  43. The Education Thérapeutique des patients Insuffisants Cardiaques (ETIC; Therapeutic Education for Patients with Cardiac Failure) trial aimed to determine whether a pragmatic education intervention in general prac...

    Authors: Hélène Vaillant-Roussel, Catherine Laporte, Bruno Pereira, Marion De Rosa, Bénédicte Eschalier, Charles Vorilhon, Romain Eschalier, Gilles Clément, Denis Pouchain, Jean-François Chenot, Claude Dubray and Philippe Vorilhon
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:80
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  44. People with cognitive problems, and their families, report distress and uncertainty whilst undergoing evaluation for dementia and perceive that traditional diagnostic evaluation in secondary care is insufficie...

    Authors: Sam T. Creavin, Sarah J. Cullum, Judy Haworth, Lesley Wye, Antony Bayer, Mark Fish, Sarah Purdy and Yoav Ben-Shlomo
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:79
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Family Practice 2016 17:119

  45. Prescribing of antibiotics for common infections varies widely, and there is no medical explanation. Systematic reviews have highlighted factors that may influence antibiotic prescribing and that this is a com...

    Authors: Eva Lena Strandberg, Annika Brorsson, Malin André, Hedvig Gröndal, Sigvard Mölstad and Katarina Hedin
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:78
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  46. Statin prescribing and healthy lifestyles contribute to declining cardiovascular disease mortality. Recent guidelines emphasise the importance of giving lifestyle advice in association with prescribing statins...

    Authors: S. F. McAleer, M. E. Cupples, C. E. Neville, M. C. McKinley, J. V. Woodside and M. A. Tully
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:77
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  47. GPs’ individual decisions to refer and the various ways of working when they refer are important determinants of secondary care use. The objective of this study was to explore and describe potential characteri...

    Authors: Olav Thorsen, Miriam Hartveit, Jan Olav Johannessen, Lars Fosse, Geir Egil Eide, Jörn Schulz and Anders Bærheim
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:76
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Family Practice 2017 18:11

  48. Very few of the primary care doctors currently working in China’s community health centers have a college degree (issued by 5-year medical schools). How to attract college graduates to community services in th...

    Authors: Lingling Zhang, Thomas Bossert, Ajay Mahal, Guoqing Hu, Qing Guo and Yuanli Liu
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:75
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  49. Dizziness-related impairment is a strong predictor for an unfavourable course of dizziness in older people. In this study we explored the experiences of older patients with significant dizziness-related impair...

    Authors: Hanneke Stam, Marjanne Wisse, Bram Mulder, Johannes C. van der Wouden, Otto R. Maarsingh and Henriëtte E. van der Horst
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2016 17:74
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