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  1. Previous systematic reviews suggest that nurse-led interventions improve short-term blood pressure (BP) control for people with hypertension. However, the long-term effects, adverse events, and appropriate tar...

    Authors: Masami Ito, Aran Tajika, Rie Toyomoto, Hissei Imai, Masatsugu Sakata, Yukiko Honda, Sanae Kishimoto, Memori Fukuda, Noboru Horinouchi, Ethan Sahker and Toshi A. Furukawa
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:143
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  2. In recent years, health systems have expanded the focus on health equity to include health-related social needs (HRSNs) screening. Community health workers (CHWs) are positioned to address HRSNs by serving as ...

    Authors: Kevin P. Fiori, Samantha Levano, Jessica Haughton, Renee Whiskey-LaLanne, Andrew Telzak, Hemen Muleta, Kavita Vani, Earle C. Chambers and Andrew Racine
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:140
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  3. Primary care physicians often lack resources and training to correctly diagnose and manage chronic insomnia disorder. Tools supporting chronic insomnia diagnosis and management could fill this critical gap. A ...

    Authors: Hugh Selsick, Anna Heidbreder, Jason Ellis, Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Diego García-Borreguero, Chrysoula Leontiou, Michael S.B. Mak, David O’Regan and Liborio Parrino
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:138
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  4. Temporomandibular joint disorders (TMDs) are a variety of conditions that affect different parts of the temporomandibular joints (TMJ) and can cause orofacial pain and functional impairment. This study aims to...

    Authors: Muhammad Taqi, Syed Jaffar Abbas Zaidi, Saad uddin Siddiqui, Babar Zia and Maria Khadija Siddiqui
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:137
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  5. Self-management education programmes are cost-effective in helping people with type 2 diabetes manage their diabetes, but referral and attendance rates are low. This study reports on the effectiveness of the E...

    Authors: Melanie J Davies, Danielle H Bodicoat, Alan Brennan, Simon Dixon, Helen Eborall, Agnieszka Glab, Laura J Gray, Michelle Hadjiconstantinou, Lisa Huddlestone, Nicky Hudson, Anju Keetharuth, Kamlesh Khunti, Graham Martin, Alison Northern, Rebecca Pritchard, Sally Schreder…
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:136
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  6. Engaging patients and community members in healthcare implementation, research and evaluation has become more popular over the past two decades. Despite the growing interest in patient engagement, there is sca...

    Authors: Linda Zittleman, John M. Westfall, Danelle Callen, Alisha M. Herrick, Carolina Nkouaga, Matthew Simpson, L. Miriam Dickinson, Douglas Fernald, Arthur Kaufman, Aimee F. English, W. Perry Dickinson and Donald E. Nease Jr
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:135
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  7. The prevalence of persons with complex needs in Singapore is rising. Poor understanding of what constitutes complexity impedes the identification of care gaps and development of interventions to improve care f...

    Authors: Jing Sheng Quek, Eng Sing Lee, Lian Leng Low and Sabrina Kay Wye Wong
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:134
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  8. Village doctors are the main health service providers in China’s rural areas. Compared with other rural groups, they will have a sense of relative deprivation, which has an impact on their practice mentality a...

    Authors: Qiusha Li, Zixuan Zhao, Chunxiao Yang, Bei Lu, Chenxiao Yang, Jiahui Qiao, Dongmei Huang, Zhongming Chen and Wenqiang Yin
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:133
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  10. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented significant global healthcare challenges, particularly impacting the continuity of essential health services in low- and middle-income countries. This study investigates the...

    Authors: Varduhi Hayrumyan, Arpine Abrahamyan, Arusyak Harutyunyan, Lorky Libaridian and Serine Sahakyan
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:131
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  11. This study aimed to explore the association between hypertension follow-up management and family doctor contract services, as well as to examine whether socioeconomic status (SES) had an interaction effect on ...

    Authors: Xuehong Wang, Jie Chu, Dan Zhao, Tingting Gao, Jingjing Luo, Xueqing Wang, Shujun Chai, Jiayan Li, Jingjie Sun, Peilong Li and Chengchao Zhou
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:130
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  12. In the Netherlands, population-based cancer screening programmes (CSPs) are organized aiming at cervical, breast and colorectal cancer. For a CSP to be effective, high participation rates are essential; howeve...

    Authors: Thomas H.G. Bongaerts, Frederike L. Büchner, Vera Nierkens, Matty R. Crone, Onno R. Guicherit and Mattijs E. Numans
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:129
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  13. Patients’ ideas, concerns, and expectations are three important concepts in consultation techniques. Limited studies on these concepts include responses from both health care providers and care recipients of t...

    Authors: Andreas Oster, Eivor Wiking, Gunnar H Nilsson and Christina B Olsson
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:128
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  14. Considering time-consuming, cost-related limitations of laboratory-based HbA1c testing and follow-up clinic visits for diabetes management, it is important to explore alternative care models which incorporate ...

    Authors: Shilpa Tyagi, Gerald Choon-Huat Koh, Eng Sing Lee, Kah Pieng Ong, Roy Heng, Lian Hwa Er, Evonne Oh, Valerie Teo and David Wei Liang Ng
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:127
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  15. NHS Health Check (NHSHC) is a national cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk identification and management programme. However, evidence suggests a limited understanding of the most used metric to communicate CVD r...

    Authors: Lisa Cowap, Victoria Riley, Sarah Grogan, Naomi J. Ellis, Diane Crone, Elizabeth Cottrell, Ruth Chambers, David Clark-Carter and Christopher J. Gidlow
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:126
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  16. Side effects can occur within hours to days of starting antidepressant medications, whereas full therapeutic benefit for mood typically takes up to four weeks. This mismatch between time to harm and lag to ben...

    Authors: David Rudoler, Natasha Lane, Agnes Grudniewicz, Vicki Ling, David Snadden and Therese A Stukel
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:125
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  17. The purpose of this study was to understand the healthcare provider (HCP) perspective on the extent of suboptimal insulin dosing in people with diabetes (PwD), as well as specific challenges and solutions to i...

    Authors: Rachel S. Newson, Erik Spaepen, Birong Liao, Julie Bower, Indranil Bhattacharya, Esther Artime and William Polonsky
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:124
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  18. Primary care professionals encounter difficulties coordinating the continuum of care between primary care providers and second-line specialists and adhere to practice guidelines pertaining to diabetic foot ulc...

    Authors: Magali Brousseau-Foley, Virginie Blanchette, Julie Houle and François Trudeau
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:123
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  19. While remote patient management (RPM) has the potential to assist in achieving treatment targets for cardiovascular risk factors in primary care, its effectiveness may vary among different patient subgroups. P...

    Authors: Margot Rakers, Nicoline van Hattem, Iris Simic, Niels Chavannes, Petra van Peet, Tobias Bonten, Rimke Vos and Hendrikus van Os
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:122
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  20. Care of older adults requires comprehensive management and control of systemic diseases, which can be effectively managed by family physicians. Complicated medical conditions in older patients admitted to orth...

    Authors: Ryuichi Ohta, Tachiko Nitta, Akiko Shimizu and Chiaki Sano
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:121
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  21. Hypertension (HT) is a major public health problem globally, and it is the commonest chronic disease with a prevalence of 27% among people aged 15 years or above in Hong Kong. There is emerging literature conf...

    Authors: Kilpatrick Kiupak Chan, Lapkin Chiang, Clarence Chuenming Choi, Yimchu Li and Catherine Xiarui Chen
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:120
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  22. Children and adolescents with complex medical issues need home care services; however, few studies have provided insight into the unmet home care needs of the families of patients with osteogenesis imperfecta ...

    Authors: Xinyi Wang, Yuqing Li, Yaping Zhong, Min Wang, Xuehua Liu, Wenxuan Han, Huifang Chen and Ji Ji
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:119
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  23. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization established a number of key recommendations such as educational activities especially within primary care practices (PCPs) which are a key co...

    Authors: Delphine Kirkove, Sara Willems, Esther Van Poel, Nadia Dardenne, Anne-Françoise Donneau, Elodie Perrin, Cécile Ponsar, Christian Mallen, Neophytos Stylianou, Claire Collins, Rémi Gagnayre and Benoit Pétré
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 24(Suppl 1):285
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 24 Supplement 1

  24. Higher numbers of family physicians (FPs) stopped practicing or retired during the COVID-19 pandemic, worsening the family doctor shortage in Canada. Our study objective was to determine which factors were ass...

    Authors: Rachel Walsh, Deanna Telner, Debra A. Butt, Paul Krueger, Karen Fleming, Sarah MacDonald, Aakriti Pyakurel, Michelle Greiver and Liisa Jaakkimainen
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:118
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  25. Reducing antibiotic use in Australia, and the subsequent impact on antimicrobial resistance, requires multiple, sustained approaches with appropriate resources and support. Additional strategies to reduce anti...

    Authors: Kylie S Carville, Niamh Meagher, Yara-Natalie Abo, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, James Fielding, Andrew Steer, Jodie McVernon and David J Price
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:117
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  26. People living with HIV (PLWH) may be at heightened risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Statin use and lifestyle changes reduce the risk of CVD but remain under-prescribed among PLWH. The objective of this s...

    Authors: Adedotun Ogunbajo, Ivy Todd, Deborah Zajdman, Abraelle Anderson, Soma Wali, Allison Diamant, Joseph A. Ladapo and Allison J. Ober
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:116
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  27. The Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) was launched in the UK in 2016. ReSPECT is designed to facilitate meaningful discussions between healthcare professionals, patients, and ...

    Authors: Karin Eli, Jenny Harlock, Caroline J. Huxley, Celia Bernstein, Claire Mann, Rachel Spencer, Frances Griffiths and Anne-Marie Slowther
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:115
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  28. The management of persons with multimorbidity challenges healthcare systems tailored to individual diseases. A person-centred care approach is advocated, in particular for persons with multimorbidity. The aim ...

    Authors: Mieke JL Bogerd, Pauline Slottje, Jettie Bont and Hein PJ Van Hout
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:114
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  29. Vascular surgery patients admitted to the hospital are often multimorbid. In case of questions regarding chronic medical problems different specialties are consulted, which leads to a high number of treating p...

    Authors: Katharina Schmalstieg-Bahr, Sophia MacDonald, Nadine Pohontsch, Sebastian Debus and Martin Scherer
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:113
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  30. Regular physical activity (PA) results in extensive physical, psychological, and social benefits. Despite primary care being a key point of influence for PA behaviours in the UK, research indicates poor applic...

    Authors: Callum J. Leese, Robert H. Mann, Hussain Al-Zubaidi and Emma J. Cockcroft
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:112
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  31. Despite the potential advantages of Internet-based diabetes self-management education, its adoption was not widespread among Singapore’s public primary care clinics (polyclinics). An interactive online tool wa...

    Authors: Jeremy Wei Song Choo, Aminath Shiwaza Moosa, Jeremy Wei Mei Koh, Chirk Jenn Ng and Ngiap Chuan Tan
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:111
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  32. The mental health and well-being of GPs is a critical issue as they play a vital role in providing healthcare services to individuals and communities. Research has shown that GPs often face high levels of stre...

    Authors: Joanna Cholewa, Cecile Ponsar, Ségolène de Rouffignac, Benoit Pétré, Esther Van Poel, Sara Willems and Michel De Jonghe
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 24(Suppl 1):284
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 24 Supplement 1

  33. Children Snoring is a common childhood disorder that affects the growth and development of children and is detrimental to their health. Increasing awareness of Children Snoring among parents is important.

    Authors: Siyan Guo, Xiaoyue Hu, Xiaokai Wang, Hongyan Tie, Qiujun Zhang, Caixia Li, Luying Qin and Hongxia Su
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:110
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  34. Over the past two decades, Canadian provinces and territories have introduced a series of primary care reforms in an attempt to improve access to and quality of primary care services, resulting in diverse orga...

    Authors: Maria Mathews, Lindsay Hedden, Julia Lukewich, Emily Gard Marshall, Leslie Meredith, Lauren Moritz, Dana Ryan, Sarah Spencer, Judith B. Brown, Paul S. Gill and Eric K. W. Wong
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:109
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  35. Non-drug interventions are recommended for chronic condition prevention and management yet are underused in clinical practice. Understanding barriers and enablers to using non-drug interventions may help imple...

    Authors: Hannah Greenwood, Alexandra R. Davidson, Rae Thomas and Loai Albarqouni
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:108
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  36. Domestic violence (DV) is a serious and prevalent public health problem with devastating consequences for the victims and their families. Whilst the number of cases reported to the authorities has risen in rec...

    Authors: Diana Nadine Moreira and Mariana Pinto da Costa
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:107
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  37. Dyspepsia is a commonly encountered clinical condition in Dutch general practice, which is often treated through the prescription of acid-reducing medication (ARM). However, recent studies indicate that the ma...

    Authors: Joris L. J. M. Müskens, Simone A. van Dulmen, Karin Hek, Gert P. Westert and Rudolf B. Kool
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:106
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  38. The salutogenic theory forms the basis for health promotion and describes health as a continuum from a dis-ease pole of health to an ease pole. The core concept for the salutogenic theory is sense of coherence...

    Authors: Lisbeth M. Johansson, Eleonor I. Fransson, Hans Lingfors and Marie Golsäter
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:105
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  39. General practitioners (GPs) have a vital role in reaching out to vulnerable populations during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, they experience many challenges to fulfill this role. This study aim...

    Authors: Dorien Vanden Bossche, Esther Van Poel, Pierre Vanden Bussche, Benoit Petré, Cécile Ponsar, Peter Decat and Sara Willems
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 24(Suppl 1):283
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 24 Supplement 1

  40. Providing primary care for people with frailty can be challenging due to an increased risk of adverse outcomes and use of potentially inappropriate medications which may exacerbate characteristics of frailty. ...

    Authors: T Schneider, B Farrell, S Karunananthan, A Afkham, E Keely, C Liddy and L. M. McCarthy
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:104
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  41. The World Health Organization supports interprofessional collaboration in primary care. On over the past 20 years, community pharmacists had been taking a growing number of new responsibilities and they are re...

    Authors: Morgane Angibaud, Maud Jourdain, Solene Girard, Louise Rouxel, Adam Mouhib, Antoine Nogueira, Cédric Rat and Jean-François Huon
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:103
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  42. Village health volunteers (VHVs) engaging in community-based COVID-19 prevention and control measures played a key role in mitigating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand. We conducted a cross-sectiona...

    Authors: Paleeratana Wongrith, Phuwasin Buakate, Lateefah Doylee, Naseeyah Phonla, Omid Dadras and Geoff Frampton
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:102
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  43. In out-of-hours primary care (OHS-PC), semi-automatic decision support tools are often used during telephone triage. In the Netherlands, the Netherlands Triage Standard (NTS) is used. The NTS is mainly expert-...

    Authors: Michelle Spek, Roderick P. Venekamp, Esther de Groot, Geert-Jan Geersing, Daphne C. A. Erkelens, Maarten van Smeden, Anna S. M. Dobbe, Mathé Delissen, Frans H. Rutten and Dorien L. Zwart
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:101
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  44. As primary care pharmacists take on an increasingly important and collaborative role in managing patients with chronic diseases, communication barriers with patients and healthcare colleagues have emerged. Thi...

    Authors: Reuben Tan, Ariffin Kawaja, Swee Phaik Ooi and Chirk Jenn Ng
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:100
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  45. Having a sufficient and well-functioning health workforce is crucial for reducing the burden of disease and premature death. Health workforce development, focusing on availability, recruitment, retention, and ...

    Authors: Aklilu Endalamaw, Resham B Khatri, Daniel Erku, Anteneh Zewdie, Eskinder Wolka, Frehiwot Nigatu and Yibeltal Assefa
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:99
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  46. Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases with a low control rate globally. The effect of communication skills training contributing to hypertension control remains uncertain. The aim of the pres...

    Authors: Chuan Zou, Lili Deng, Jianzhao Luo, Hua Dai, Yu Zhang, Ru Guo, Xiaolu Luo, Rong Yang, Haiqi Song, John Spicer, Qian Zhao and Xiaoyang Liao
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:98
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  47. Patient reported experiences (PREMs) are important indices of quality of care. Similarities in demography between patient and doctor, known as social concordance, can facilitate patient-doctor interaction and ...

    Authors: D. Eggermont, A. E. Kunst, P. P. Groenewegen and R. A. Verheij
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:97
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  48. Patients dealing with severe mental illnesses (SMI) often face suboptimal clinical outcomes and higher mortality rates due to a range of factors, including undetected physical health conditions. The provision ...

    Authors: Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, John Brandt Brodersen, Susanne Reventlow, Christina Svanholm, Anne Møller and Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:96
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  49. Inquiring conservative Asian women about their menopausal symptoms is often challenging in crowded primary healthcare clinics. Furthermore, the subject matter is culturally sensitive to most Malaysian women. H...

    Authors: Anusha Manoharan, Megat Muhammad Harris, Beh Hooi Chin, Koh Wen Ming, Zamzurina Asmuee, Norafini Salamon, Jerampang Pefer, H. Radhiyah, M. Nadia Hamimmah, Susan Goldstein, Shamala Ramasamy and Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:95
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  50. Authors: Alexandre Moniz, Susana T. Duarte, Pedro Aguiar, Carmen Caeiro, Diogo Pires, Rita Fernandes, Diogo Moço, Marta M. Marques, Rute Sousa, Helena Canhão, Jaime Branco, Ana Maria Rodrigues and Eduardo B. Cruz
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:94
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