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  1. Ethnic minorities report poorer evaluations of primary health care compared to White British patients. Emerging evidence suggests that when a doctor and patient share ethnicity and/or language this is associat...

    Authors: Faraz Ahmed, Gary A Abel, Cathy E Lloyd, Jenni Burt and Martin Roland
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:55
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. In the Netherlands, primary out-of-hours (OOH) care is provided by large scale General Practitioner (GP) cooperatives. GP cooperatives can be contacted by patients living in the area surrounding the GP coopera...

    Authors: Tessa Jansen, Marieke Zwaanswijk, Karin Hek and Dinny de Bakker
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:54
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Teleradiology entails attainment of x-rays in one location, transfer over some distance and assessment at another location for diagnosis or consultation. This study documents fracture diagnostics, unnecessary ...

    Authors: Jac JWM Jacobs, Jan PAM Jacobs, Eric van Sonderen, Thys van der Molen and Robbert Sanderman
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:53
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  4. The use of out-of-hours healthcare services for non-urgent health problems is believed to be related to the organisation of daytime primary care but insight into underlying mechanisms is limited. Our objective...

    Authors: Marleen Smits, Yvonne Peters, Sanne Broers, Ellen Keizer, Michel Wensing and Paul Giesen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:52
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  6. Joint consultations – such as teleconsultations – provide opportunities for continuing education of general practitioners (GPs). It has been reported this form of interactive case-based learning may lead to fe...

    Authors: Tiago Cravo Oliveira, James Barlow and Steffen Bayer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:50
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are the cornerstone of asthma therapy. The ICS-to-total-asthma-medication ratios, calculated from claims data, indicate potentially risky disease management in asthma. Our aim was...

    Authors: Laurent Laforest, Idlir Licaj, Gilles Devouassoux, Irene Eriksson, Pascal Caillet, Gérard Chatte, Manon Belhassen and Eric Van Ganse
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:49
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Family Practice 2016 17:5

  8. Primary care physicians struggle to treat chronic noncancer pain while limiting opioid misuse, abuse, and diversion. The objective of this study was to understand how primary care physicians perceive their dec...

    Authors: Christopher A Harle, Sarah E Bauer, Huong Q Hoang, Robert L Cook, Robert W Hurley and Roger B Fillingim
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:48
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Telephone triage represents one strategy to manage demand for face-to-face GP appointments in primary care. However, limited evidence exists of the challenges GP practices face in implementing telephone triage...

    Authors: Jamie Murdoch, Anna Varley, Emily Fletcher, Nicky Britten, Linnie Price, Raff Calitri, Colin Green, Valerie Lattimer, Suzanne H Richards, David A Richards, Chris Salisbury, Rod S Taylor and John L Campbell
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:47
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  10. The working relationship between client and therapist can be important to enhance outcomes from vocational rehabilitation for women with stress-related disorders in primary health care. The aim was to investig...

    Authors: Mona Eklund, Lena-Karin Erlandsson and Birgitta A Wästberg
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:46
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  11. Referral for both lifestyle and surgical interventions are recommended as part of the clinical management of obesity in general practice. However, current practice falls short of this. This qualitative study a...

    Authors: Kyoung Kon Kim, Lin-Lee Yeong, Ian D Caterson and Mark F Harris
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:45
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  12. To assess the contribution of physician-related factors, especially their influenza vaccine status, in the vaccination coverage of their patients.

    Authors: Pere Godoy, Jesús Castilla, José María Mayoral, Vicente Martín, Jenaro Astray, Núria Torner, Diana Toledo, Núria Soldevila, Fernando González-Candelas, Susana García, José Diaz-Borrego, Sonia Tamames and Angela Domínguez
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:44
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  13. International and national societies claim a patient centred approach including shared decision making (SDM) in diabetes care. In a previous project, a SDM programme on the prevention of myocardial infarction ...

    Authors: Susanne Buhse, Ingrid Mühlhauser, Nadine Kuniss, Ulrich Alfons Müller, Thomas Lehmann, Katrin Liethmann and Matthias Lenz
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:43
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  14. The vast majority of patients with diabetes have multiple chronic conditions, increasing complexity of care; however, clinical practice guidelines, interventions, and public reporting metrics do not adequately...

    Authors: Elizabeth M Magnan, Rebecca Gittelson, Christie M Bartels, Heather M Johnson, Nancy Pandhi, Elizabeth A Jacobs and Maureen A Smith
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:42
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  15. We see patients who present with spirometry airflow limitation despite their forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) as well as forced vital capacity (FVC) to be supernormal (FEV1/FVC < 70%, both the %FEV1 ...

    Authors: Satomi Shiota, Masako Ichikawa, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Yoshinosuke Fukuchi and Kazuhisa Takahashi
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:41
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  16. Antibiotic and oral corticosteroid prescribing rate in patients suffering from acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma in general practice are only sparsely described. Our...

    Authors: Salwan Al-ani, Mark Spigt, Johanna Laue and Hasse Melbye
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:40
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  17. In contrast with the recommendations of clinical practice guidelines, the most common treatment for anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care is pharmacological. The aim of this study is to assess the e...

    Authors: Amale Jauregui, Joaquín Ponte, Monika Salgueiro, Saloa Unanue, Carmen Donaire, Maria Cruz Gómez, Natalia Burgos-Alonso and Gonzalo Grandes
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:39
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  18. Prolonged stress may lead to mental illness, but the prevalence of stress in a working age population seeking primary health care for whatever reason, is unknown. This paper seeks to examine to what extent thi...

    Authors: Lilian Wiegner, Dominique Hange, Cecilia Björkelund and Gunnar Ahlborg Jr
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:38
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  19. The impact of physical inactivity and unhealthy diet on health is increasingly profound. Lifestyle interventions targeting both behaviors simultaneously might decrease the prevalence of overweight and comorbid...

    Authors: Brenda AJ Berendsen, Stef PJ Kremers, Hans HCM Savelberg, Nicolaas C Schaper and Marike RC Hendriks
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:37
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  20. Chlamydia infection is a significant public health issue for young people; however, testing rates in Australian general practice are low. Practice nurses (PNs) could have an important role in contributing to i...

    Authors: Rebecca Lorch, Jane Hocking, Rebecca Guy, Alaina Vaisey, Anna Wood, Dyani Lewis and Meredith Temple-Smith
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:36
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Due to demographic change, general practitioners (GPs) are increasingly required to care for older people with complex health problems. Little is known about the subjective appraisals of GPs concerning the dem...

    Authors: Anna Herzog, Beate Gaertner, Christa Scheidt-Nave and Martin Holzhausen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:35
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. The NHS Cardiovascular Health Check (NHSHC) programme was introduced in England in 2009 to reduce cardiovascular disease mortality and morbidity for all patients aged 40 to 74 years old. Programme cost-effecti...

    Authors: Caroline E Jenkinson, Anthea Asprey, Christopher E Clark and Suzanne H Richards
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:33
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  24. Patients with comorbid depression and physical health problems have poorer outcomes compared with those with single long term conditions (LTCs), or multiple LTCs without depression. Primary care has traditiona...

    Authors: Sarah E Knowles, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Isabel Adeyemi, Nia Coupe and Peter A Coventry
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:32
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  25. The Patient Enablement Instrument (PEI), which has been used to evaluate core ingredients in primary care consultations, has been proposed as a means of moving beyond patient satisfaction evaluations. The aim ...

    Authors: Mattias Rööst, Andrzej Zielinski, Christer Petersson and Eva Lena Strandberg
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:31
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  26. Geriatric screening tools are increasingly implemented in daily practice, especially in the oncology setting, but also in primary care in some countries such as the Netherlands. Nonetheless, validation of thes...

    Authors: Laura Deckx, Marjan van den Akker, Liesbeth Daniels, Eric T De Jonge, Paul Bulens, Vivianne CG Tjan-Heijnen, Doris L van Abbema and Frank Buntinx
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:30
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  27. The Lapinlahti 2005–2010 study was carried out to explore cardiovascular disease risk factors and changes in lifestyle in Lapinlahti residents in eastern Finland. Our aim was to analyse factors influencing the...

    Authors: Jorma Savolainen, Hannu Kautiainen, Leo Niskanen and Pekka Mäntyselkä
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:29
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  28. Quality in healthcare has many potential meanings and interpretations. The case has been made for conceptualisations of quality that place more emphasis on describing quality and less on measuring it through s...

    Authors: Moira Kelly, Carol Rivas, Jens Foell, Janet Llewellyn-Dunn, Diana England, Anna Cocciadiferro and Sally Hull
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:28
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  29. No more than 10-15% of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients achieve all treatment goals regarding glycaemic control, lipids and blood pressure. Shared decision making (SDM) should increase that percentage;...

    Authors: Henk den Ouden, Rimke C Vos, Carla Reidsma and Guy EHM Rutten
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:27
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  30. A Reference Framework for Hypertension Care was recently developed by Hong Kong government to emphasise the importance of primary care for subjects with high blood pressure (BP). The Dietary Approaches to Stop...

    Authors: Harry HX Wang, Martin CS Wong, Rosina Y Mok, Mandy WM Kwan, Wai Man Chan, Carmen KM Fan, Catherine LS Lee and Sian M Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:26
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  31. Recent trends document growth in medical tourism, the private pursuit of medical interventions abroad. Medical tourism introduces challenges to decision-making that impact and are impacted by the physician-pat...

    Authors: Valorie A Crooks, Neville Li, Jeremy Snyder, Shafik Dharamsi, Shelly Benjaminy, Karen J Jacob and Judy Illes
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:25
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  33. People are increasingly living for longer with multimorbidity. Medical education and healthcare delivery must be re-orientated to meet the societal and individual patient needs that multimorbidity confers. The...

    Authors: Sarah Yardley, Elizabeth Cottrell, Eliot Rees and Joanne Protheroe
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:23
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  35. Many physicians in Sweden, as well as in other countries, find the matter of certification of sickness absence (COSA) particularly burdensome. The issuing of COSAs has also been perceived as a work-environment...

    Authors: Lars Carlsson, Linda Lännerström, Thorne Wallman and Inger K Holmström
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:21
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  36. Performance reporting in primary health care in Canada is challenging because of the dearth of concise and synthesized information. The paucity of information occurs, in part, because the majority of primary h...

    Authors: Sabrina T Wong, Leena W Chau, William Hogg, Gary F Teare, Baukje Miedema, Mylaine Breton, Kris Aubrey-Bassler, Alan Katz, Fred Burge, Antoine Boivin, Tim Cooke, Danièle Francoeur and Walter P Wodchis
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:20
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  37. Previous research has shown variations in quality of care and patient outcomes under different primary care models. The objective of this study was to use previously validated, evidence-based performance indic...

    Authors: Teresa To, Jun Guan, Jingqin Zhu, M Diane Lougheed, Alan Kaplan, Itamar Tamari, Matthew B Stanbrook, Jacqueline Simatovic, Laura Feldman and Andrea S Gershon
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:19
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  38. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is predominantly managed in primary care in the UK, but there is evidence of under-identification leading to lack of inclusion on practice chronic disease registers, which are nece...

    Authors: Simon DS Fraser, Julie Parkes, David Culliford, Miriam Santer and Paul J Roderick
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:18
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  39. The visions of more integrated care have created new roles and accountabilities for organizations and professionals. Thus, professionals are increasingly expected to engage in boundary spanning activities in o...

    Authors: Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard, Anne Sofie Kjær Joensen and Thorkil Thorsen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:17
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  40. Home Medicines Review (HMR) is an Australian initiative introduced in 2001 to improve quality use of medicines. Medication management services such as HMRs have the potential to reduce medication related probl...

    Authors: Amrith Kaur Dhillon, Hendrika Laetitia Hattingh, Andrew Stafford and Kreshnik Hoti
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:16
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  41. Acute cough is a common problem in general practice and is often caused by a self-limiting, viral infection. Nonetheless, antibiotics are often prescribed in this situation, which may lead to unnecessary side ...

    Authors: Sven Streit, Peter Frey, Sarah Singer, Ueli Bollag and Damian N Meli
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:15
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  42. Asthma is often poorly controlled and guidelines are often inadequately followed in medical practice. In particular, the prescription of non-asthma-specific drugs can affect the quality of care. The goal of th...

    Authors: David Darmon, Laurent Laforest, Eric Van Ganse, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Chris van Weel and Laurent Letrilliart
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:14
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  43. Prescribing that is not concordant with guidelines is increasingly referred to as clinical inertia (CI). However, CI may be only apparent, and the absence of decision may actually reflect appropriate inaction ...

    Authors: Isabelle Aujoulat, Patricia Jacquemin, Michel P Hermans, Ernst Rietzschel, André Scheen, Patrick Tréfois, Elisabeth Darras and Johan Wens
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:13
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  45. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are increasingly used in the provision of primary care and have been compiled into databases which can be utilized for surveillance, research and informing practice. The prima...

    Authors: Nathan Coleman, Gayle Halas, William Peeler, Natalie Casaclang, Tyler Williamson and Alan Katz
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:11
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  46. North American patients are experiencing difficulties in securing affiliations with family physicians. Centralized waiting lists are increasingly being used in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develo...

    Authors: Mylaine Breton, Astrid Brousselle, Antoine Boivin, Danièle Roberge, Raynald Pineault and Djamal Berbiche
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:10
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  47. Point-of-care (POC) tests are devices or test strips that can be used near or at the site where care is delivered to patients, enabling a relatively fast diagnosis. Although many general practitioners (GPs) in...

    Authors: Claudette de Vries, Carine Doggen, Ellen Hilbers, Robert Verheij, Maarten IJzerman, Robert Geertsma and Ron Kusters
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:9
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  48. In order to provide smoking cessation support to their patients in line with clinical practice guidelines, general practitioners must first ascertain whether their patients’ use tobacco. This study examined (i...

    Authors: Jamie Bryant, Mariko Carey, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Elise Mansfield, Tim Regan and Alessandra Bisquera
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:8
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  49. Variation in prescription of antibiotics in primary care can indicate poor clinical practice that contributes to the increase of resistant strains. General Practitioners (GPs), as a professional group, are exp...

    Authors: Gloria Cordoba, Volkert Siersma, Beatriz Lopez-Valcarcel, Lars Bjerrum, Carl Llor, Rune Aabenhus and Marjukka Makela
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:7
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  50. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a chronic, relapsing gastrointestinal disorder, that affects approximately 10% of the general population and the majority are diagnosed in primary care. IBS has been reported ...

    Authors: Ewa Grodzinsky, Susanna Walter, Lisa Viktorsson, Ann-Kristin Carlsson, Michael P Jones and Åshild Faresjö
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2015 16:6
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