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  1. Over 90% of antibiotics for human use in Europe are prescribed in primary care. We assessed the congruence between primary care treatment guidelines for skin infections and commensal Staphylococcus aureus (S. aur...

    Authors: Evelien ME van Bijnen, W John Paget, Casper DJ den Heijer, Ellen E Stobberingh, Cathrien A Bruggeman and François G Schellevis
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:175
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Population ageing fosters new models of care delivery for older people that are increasingly integrated into existing care systems. In the Netherlands, a primary-care based preventive home visitation programme...

    Authors: Mandy M N Stijnen, Maria W J Jansen, Inge G P Duimel-Peeters and Hubertus J M Vrijhoef
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:173
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  3. The overall burden of disease (BOD) especially for infectious diseases is higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than other regions of the world. Existing data collected through the Health Management Information System ...

    Authors: Martin Kayitale Mbonye, Sarah M Burnett, Robert Colebunders, Sarah Naikoba, Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden, Marcia R Weaver and Allan Ronald
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:165
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  4. Long-term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are growing challenges for health services. Psychosocial co-morbidity is associated with poorer quality of life and greater use of heal...

    Authors: Susanne Langer, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Jessica Drinkwater, Cara Afzal, Kim Keane, Cheryl Hunter, Else Guthrie and Peter Salmon
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:164
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  5. The purpose of patient information leaflets (PILs) is to inform patients about the administration, precautions and potential side effects of their prescribed medication. Despite European Commission guidelines ...

    Authors: Oliver Rudolf Herber, Verena Gies, David Schwappach, Petra Thürmann and Stefan Wilm
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:163
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Recurrent urinary tract infections (RUTIs) are commonly presented by women in primary care. In order to explore the poorly described experience of women with RUTIs a qualitative study was conducted that analys...

    Authors: Andrew Flower, Felicity L Bishop and George Lewith
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:162
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  7. Overweight and obesity are common in the Netherlands: in 2006 51% of adult men and 42% of adult women were overweight; 10% of men and 12% of women were obese. Patients with overweight or obesity in the Netherl...

    Authors: Elisabeth Govers, Jacob C Seidell, Marjolein Visser and Ingeborg A Brouwer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:161
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. A high prevalence of mental and physical ill health among refugees resettled in the Netherlands has been reported. With this study we aim to assess the quality of primary healthcare for resettled refugees in t...

    Authors: Marije A van Melle, Majda Lamkaddem, Martijn M Stuiver, Annette AM Gerritsen, Walter LJM Devillé and Marie-Louise Essink-Bot
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:160
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Most evidence on chronic diseases has been collected for single diseases whereas in reality, patients often suffer from more than one condition. There is a growing need for evidence-based answers to multimorbi...

    Authors: Pauline Boeckxstaens, Wim Peersman, Gwendolyn Goubin, Souhila Ghali, Jan De Maeseneer, Guy Brusselle and An De Sutter
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:159
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. An ageing population and high levels of multimorbidity increase rates of GP and specialist consultations. Constraints on health care funding are leading to additional pressure for the adoption of safe and cost...

    Authors: Egle Price, Richard Baker, Jane Krause and Christine Keen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:158
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  11. Depression is common among persons with diabetes and associated with adverse health outcomes. To date, little is known about the causal mechanisms that lead to depression in diabetes. The aim of the present st...

    Authors: Sylvia Boehme, Christian Geiser and Babette Renneberg
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:157
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. The importance of proactive chronic care has become increasingly evident. Yet, it is unknown whether the use of general practice (GP) during daytime may affect the use of Out-of-Hours (OOH) Primary Care Servic...

    Authors: Lone Flarup, Grete Moth, Morten Bondo Christensen, Mogens Vestergaard, Frede Olesen and Peter Vedsted
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:156
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  13. Early detection and effective management of risk factors can potentially delay progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) to end-stage kidney disease, and decrease mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular ...

    Authors: Rachael C Walker, Mark R Marshall and Nick R Polaschek
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:155
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. There is currently a growing emphasis in primary care on upscaling the provision of evidence-based services for specific conditions, such as heart failure (HF), which have traditionally been seen as part of a ...

    Authors: Stephanie Tierney, Roman Kislov and Christi Deaton
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:153
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  16. Patients treated for prostate cancer may present to general practitioners (GPs) for treatment follow up, but may be reticent to have their consultations recorded. Therefore the use of simulated patients allows...

    Authors: Moyez Jiwa, Georgia Halkett, Xingqiong Meng and Melissa Berg
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:152
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  17. Chronic disease management presents enormous challenges to the primary care workforce because of the rising epidemic of cardiovascular risk factors. The chronic care model was proven effective in improving chr...

    Authors: Anis S Ramli, Sharmila Lakshmanan, Jamaiyah Haniff, Sharmini Selvarajah, Seng F Tong, Mohamad-Adam Bujang, Suraya Abdul-Razak, Asrul A Shafie, Verna KM Lee, Thuhairah H Abdul-Rahman, Maryam H Daud, Kien K Ng, Farnaza Ariffin, Hasidah Abdul-Hamid, Md-Yasin Mazapuspavina, Nafiza Mat-Nasir…
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:151
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  18. A prospective Population Risk Stratification (PRS) tool was first introduced in the public Basque Health Service in 2011, at the level of its several Primary Care (PC) practices. This paper aims at exploring t...

    Authors: Regina Sauto Arce, Amaia Saenz De Ormijana, Juan F Orueta, Marie-Pierre Gagnon and Roberto Nuño-Solinís
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:150
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  19. International and national bodies promote interdisciplinary care in the management of people with chronic conditions. We examine one facilitative factor in this team-based approach - the co-location of non-phy...

    Authors: Juliet Rumball-Smith, Walter P Wodchis, Anna Koné, Tim Kenealy, Jan Barnsley and Toni Ashton
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:149
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  20. Adults with chronic disease are the most frequent users of the primary healthcare system. In Manitoba, patients are allowed to seek ambulatory (outpatient) care from the provider of their choosing (primary car...

    Authors: Alan Katz, Patricia Martens, Dan Chateau, Bodgan Bogdanovic and Ina Koseva
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:148
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. In patients treated with oral anticoagulants, subcutaneous injections of anti-tetanus vaccine are usually recommended to reduce the risk of bleeding, although the effectiveness of the vaccine has only been pro...

    Authors: Fernando I Lago-Deibe, Maria-Victoria Martín-Miguel, Carmen Velicia-Peñas, Isabel Rey Gómez-Serranillos and Manuela Fontanillo-Fontanillo
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:147
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. Comparative performance information (CPI) about the quality of hospital care is information used to identify high-quality hospitals and providers. As the gatekeeper to secondary care, the general practitioner ...

    Authors: Nicole ABM Ketelaar, Marjan J Faber, Glyn Elwyn, Gert P Westert and Jozé C Braspenning
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:146
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Māori men in New Zealand have higher mortality from prostate cancer, despite having lower incidence rates. The objective of this study was to examine patterns of screening for prostate cancer in primary care a...

    Authors: Zuzana Obertová, Nina Scott, Charis Brown, Fraser Hodgson, Alistair Stewart, Michael Holmes and Ross Lawrenson
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:145
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. A program supporting the initiation of insulin therapy in primary care was introduced in Belgium, as part of a larger quality improvement project on diabetes care. This paper reports on a study exploring facto...

    Authors: Patricia Sunaert, Sara Willems, Luc Feyen, Hilde Bastiaens, Jan De Maeseneer, Lut Jenkins, Frank Nobels, Emmanuel Samyn, Marie Vandekerckhove, Johan Wens and An De Sutter
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:144
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  25. Australians living in rural and remote areas experience poorer access to primary health care (PHC) and poorer health outcomes compared to metropolitan populations. Current health reform in Australia aims to en...

    Authors: Susan L Thomas, John Wakerman and John S Humphreys
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:143
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  26. Danish general practitioners (GPs) answer all calls to the out-of-hours primary care service. About 60% of the calls are terminated on the telephone through provision of medical advice and prescription of medi...

    Authors: Grete Moth, Linda Huibers, Morten Bondo Christensen and Peter Vedsted
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:142
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  27. Decision-making is central for general practitioners (GP). Practice guidelines are important tools in this process but implementation of them in the complex context of primary care is a challenge. The purpose ...

    Authors: Maria Ingemansson, Pia Bastholm-Rahmner and Anna Kiessling
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:141
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  28. Previous research has shown that in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients, it is important to consider not only physical functioning and complaints but also psychological factors, such as illne...

    Authors: Saskia WM Weldam, Jan-Willem J Lammers, Monique JWM Heijmans and Marieke J Schuurmans
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:140
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Teaching of medication prescribing is a specific challenge in general practice curriculum. The aim of this study was to identify and rank the competencies required for prescribing medication for general practi...

    Authors: Jean-Pascal Fournier, Brigitte Escourrou, Julie Dupouy, Michel Bismuth, Jordan Birebent, Rachel Simmons, Jean-Christophe Poutrain and Stéphane Oustric
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:139
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Since the 1990s, professional institutions worldwide have emphasised the need to develop research in general practice to improve the health of the population. The recent creation of professorships in general p...

    Authors: Jean-Sébastien Cadwallader, Jean-Pierre Lebeau, Evelyne Lasserre and Laurent Letrilliart
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:136
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Although hypercholesterolemia is considered a cardiovascular risk factor, in isolation it is not necessarily sufficient cause for a cardiovascular event. To improve event prediction, cardiovascular risk calcul...

    Authors: Mireia Fàbregas, Irene Berges, Francesc Fina, Eduardo Hermosilla, Ermengol Coma, Leonardo Méndez, Manuel Medina, Sebastià Calero, Elena Serrano, Rosa Morros, Mònica Monteagudo and Bonaventura Bolíbar
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:135
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  34. As Japan’s population ages, more frail elderly people are cared for by members of their family. The dynamics within such families are difficult to study, in part because they are difficult to quantify. We deve...

    Authors: Tesshu Kusaba, Kotaro Sato, Yoshinori Matsui, Satoshi Matsuda, Takashi Ando, Ken Sakushima, Takafumi Wakita, Shingo Fukuma and Shunichi Fukuhara
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:134
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  35. In view of the paucity of evidence regarding effective ways of reassuring worried patients, this study explored reassuring strategies that are considered useful by general practitioners (GPs).

    Authors: Esther Giroldi, Wemke Veldhuijzen, Carolien Leijten, Dionne Welter, Trudy van der Weijden, Jean Muris and Cees van der Vleuten
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:133
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  36. A stepwise screening approach for the detection and management of cardiometabolic disease is proposed in various primary care guidelines. The aim of this study was to explore the implementation of a cardiometa...

    Authors: Merijn Godefrooij, Mark Spigt, Wim van der Minne, Georgette Jurrissen, Geert-Jan Dinant and André Knottnerus
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:132
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  38. Therapeutic inertia has been defined as the failure of health-care provider to initiate or intensify therapy when therapeutic goals are not reached. It is regarded as a major cause of uncontrolled hypertension...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Lebeau, Jean-Sébastien Cadwallader, Isabelle Aubin-Auger, Alain Mercier, Thomas Pasquet, Emmanuel Rusch, Kristin Hendrickx and Etienne Vermeire
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:130
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Mental health problems among young peoples are a growing public health issue around the world. In low- income countries health systems are characterized by lack of facilities, human resources and primary healt...

    Authors: Claudia Obando Medina, Gunnar Kullgren and Kjerstin Dahlblom
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:129
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  40. The EUprimecare project-team assessed the perception of primary health care (PHC) professionals and patients on quality of organization of PHC systems in the participating countries: Estonia, Finland, Germany,...

    Authors: Renata Papp, Ilona Borbas, Eva Dobos, Maren Bredehorst, Lina Jaruseviciene, Tuulikki Vehko and Sandor Balogh
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:128
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  41. Chlamydia trachomatis is a common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI), which disproportionately affects young people under 25 years. Commonly, more women are offered screening than men. This study o...

    Authors: Karen Lorimer, Susan Martin and Lisa M McDaid
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:127
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Integrated team-based primary care is an international imperative. This is required more so in Africa, where fragmented verticalised care dominates. South Africa is trying to address this with health reforms, ...

    Authors: Shabir Moosa, Bob Mash, Anselme Derese and Wim Peersman
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:125
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  44. We explored experiences of depression diagnosis and treatment amongst multimorbid patients referred to a metropolitan multidisciplinary outpatient clinic to identify commonalities across this patient group.

    Authors: Melinda N Stanners, Christopher A Barton, Sepehr Shakib and Helen R Winefield
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:124
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  45. Women are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular disease, often experiencing poorer outcomes following a cardiovascular event. Evidence points to inequities in processes of care as a potential contribut...

    Authors: Kiyuri Naicker, Clare Liddy, Jatinderpreet Singh, Monica Taljaard and William Hogg
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:123
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Survival rates following a diagnosis of cancer vary between countries. The International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP), a collaboration between six countries with primary care led health services, was...

    Authors: Peter W Rose, Willie Hamilton, Kate Aldersey, Andriana Barisic, Martin Dawes, Catherine Foot, Eva Grunfeld, Nigel Hart, Richard D Neal, Marie Pirotta, Jeffrey Sisler, Hans Thulesius, Peter Vedsted, Jane Young and Greg Rubin
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:122
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  47. Prostate cancer incidence has risen considerably in recent years, primarily due to Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing in primary care. The objective of this study was to investigate associations between P...

    Authors: Evelyn M Flahavan, Frances J Drummond, Kathleen Bennett, Thomas I Barron and Linda Sharp
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:121
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Organised follow-up is a common feature of several strategies at the primary health care level to promote health behaviour change, e.g. to increase physical activity. In Norway, municipal ‘healthy living’ cent...

    Authors: Eva Denison, Gunn E Vist, Vigdis Underland and Rigmor C Berg
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:120
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. General practitioners (GPs) are considered to play a major role in detecting and managing substance abuse. However, little is known about how or why they decide to manage it. This study investigated the factor...

    Authors: Frederic Ketterer, Linda Symons, Marie-Claire Lambrechts, Philippe Mairiaux, Lode Godderis, Lieve Peremans, Roy Remmen and Marc Vanmeerbeek
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:119
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  50. Symptoms that cannot be attributed to any known conventionally defined disease are highly prevalent in general practice. Yet, only severe cases are captured by the current diagnostic classifications of medical...

    Authors: Mette T Rask, Rikke S Andersen, Flemming Bro, Per Fink and Marianne Rosendal
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2014 15:118
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