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  1. Healthcare workers (HCWs) including community health extension workers (CHEWs) in the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria participated in a hypertension training series following the Extension for Community Hea...

    Authors: Abigail S. Baldridge, Ikechukwu A. Orji, Gabriel L. Shedul, Guhan Iyer, Erica L. Jamro, Jiancheng Ye, Blessing O. Akor, Emmanuel Okpetu, Samuel Osagie, Adaora Odukwe, Haulat Olabisi Dabiri, L. Nneka Mobisson, Namratha R. Kandula, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Mark D. Huffman and Dike B. Ojji
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:334
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  2. To examine primary care (PC) team members’ characteristics associated with video use at the Veterans Health Administration (VA).

    Authors: Claudia Der-Martirosian, Caroline K. Yoo, W. Neil Steers, Cynthia G. Hou, Karen Chu, Jacqueline Ferguson, Maia Carter, Leonie Heyworth and Lucinda B. Leung
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:333
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  3. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic drove a rapid and widespread shift to virtual care, followed by a gradual return to in-person visits. Virtual visits may offer more convenient access to care for some, but ot...

    Authors: Cecilia Sierra-Heredia, Elmira Tayyar, Yasmin Bozorgi, Padmini Thakore, Selamawit Hagos, Ruth Carrillo, Stefanie Machado, Sandra Peterson, Shira Goldenberg, Mei-ling Wiedmeyer and M Ruth Lavergne
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:332
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  4. General hospitals in China have been establishing General Practice Departments (GPD). Although General Practice Nurses (GPNs) are an important part of this medical system, their training has not been synchroni...

    Authors: Xue Jin, Zihan Pan, Shuxiao Hou, Hui Pang, Aimei Dong, Lin Hu, Steven Brown, Gail Plester and Chunhua Chi
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:331
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  5. The prevalence of heart failure is increasing owing to the aging of the population, resulting in growing medical costs and an increasing number of patients with multimorbidity. The optimal management of heart ...

    Authors: Kasumi Nishikawa, Ryuichi Ohta and Chiaki Sano
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:330
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  6. As a rare endocrine disorder, Cushing’s Syndrome (Cushing’s) is characterized by numerous symptoms and a non-specific presentation, leading to a delay to diagnosis for patients with this disease. To date, rese...

    Authors: Sarah C Jones, Sarah Nutter and Jessica F Saunders
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:329
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  7. Although the number of point-of-care ultrasound devices available in Hungarian primary care practices are increasing due to government funding, their use in day-to-day patient care is limited and unregulated. ...

    Authors: Róbert Kiss-Kovács, Blanka Morvai-Illés, Albert Varga and Gergely Ágoston
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:328
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  8. Primary health care is the first point of contact for patients from refugee backgrounds in the Australian health system. Sociocultural factors, including beliefs and value systems, are salient determinants of ...

    Authors: Prince Peprah, Jane Lloyd, David Ajak Ajang and Mark F Harris
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:327
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  9. Relative to country-specific epidemiological trends, Kuwait experiences a far greater burden of type 2 diabetes among its population. Information behaviours form a significant component of self-care management...

    Authors: Zainab Meer, Ebaa Al-Ozairi, Genevie Fernandes, Sruthi Ranganathan and Jay Patel
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:326
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  10. Group allied health interventions for people with chronic conditions may be a solution to increasing access to allied health in primary care. This umbrella review aimed to determine the effectiveness of allied...

    Authors: Sarah Dennis, Wing Kwok, Jennifer Alison, Leanne Hassett, Gillian Nisbet, Kathryn Refshauge, Catherine Sherrington and Anna Williams
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:325
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  11. Telemedicine allows delivery of healthcare to occur between parties that are not in the same location. As telemedicine users are not co-present, effective communication methods are crucial to the delivery and ...

    Authors: Amy D Nguyen, Sarah J. White, Tim Tse, John A. Cartmill, Peter Roger, Sarah Hatem and Simon M. Willcock
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:324
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  12. Chronic, non-malignant diseases (CNMD) like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure (CHF) and dementia in advanced stages are very burdensome for patients. Timely palliative care...

    Authors: Nadine Janis Pohontsch, Jan Weber, Stephanie Stiel, Franziska Schade, Friedemann Nauck, Janina Timm, Martin Scherer and Gabriella Marx
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:323
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  13. A train-the-trainer approach can effectively support the integration of new practice standards for health and social services professionals. This study describes the effects of an enhanced train-the-trainer pr...

    Authors: Marie-Eve Poitras, Yves Couturier, Emmauelle Doucet, Vanessa T. Vaillancourt, Gilles Gauthier, Marie-Dominique Poirier, Sylvie Massé, Catherine Hudon, Nathalie Delli-Colli, Dominique Gagnon, Emmanuelle Careau, Arnaud Duhoux, Isabelle Gaboury, Djamal Berbiche, Ali Ben Charif, Rachelle Ashcroft…
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:322
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  14. Family caregivers play a significant role in providing care for these people at home and need new evidence on the outcomes of their caregiving. Caregiving for people with chronic psychiatric disorders, especia...

    Authors: Seyedmohammad Mirhosseini, Fateme Imani Parsa, Mohamad Gharehbaghi, Somaye Minaei-Moghadam, Mohammad Hasan Basirinezhad and Hossein Ebrahimi
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:321
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  15. This study describes how New York City (NYC) Health + Hospitals implemented a large-scale Community Health Worker (CHW) program in adult primary care clinics between January 2022 and December 2023 and establis...

    Authors: Jenifer Clapp, Alessandra Calvo-Friedman, Yuan Jin Tan, Samantha Lily Kumar, Jenna Lupi, David Conley, Evelyn Perdomo and Nichola J. Davis
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:320
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  16. Health care challenges in remote rural municipalities (RRMs) emphasize the importance of primary health care (PHC) and require an expanded scope of practice. Doctors are key actors in this context. The aim of ...

    Authors: Cassiano Mendes Franco, Lígia Giovanella, Patty Fidelis de Almeida and Márcia Cristina Rodrigues Fausto
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:319
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  17. Children in care and care leavers have worse health outcomes than their peers without care experience. This study addresses an evidence gap in exploring care-experienced young people’s views and experiences of...

    Authors: Lauren Herlitz, Emily Ashford, James Baldwin, Claire Powell and Jenny Woodman
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:318
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  18. The caregiving scholarship widely acknowledges informal caregivers’ contributions to maintaining older adults’ health and well-being. However, informal caregivers encounter economic, physical, social, financia...

    Authors: Williams Agyemang-Duah and Mark W. Rosenberg
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:317
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  19. The number of patients seeking medical care is increasing, necessitating more access to primary healthcare services. As several of these patients usually present with complex medical conditions, the need for i...

    Authors: Alla El-Awaisi, Ola Hasan Yakti, Abier Mohamed Elboshra, Kawthar Hasan Jasim, Alzahraa Fathi AboAlward, Raghad Walid Shalfawi, Ahmed Awaisu, Daniel Rainkie, Noora Al Mutawa and Stella Major
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:316
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  20. Studies have shown that training interventions fail when proper strategies are not in place for their implementation. The study described the implementation strategies used in the delivery of the HIV test serv...

    Authors: Yejide Olukemi Oseni and Wilson Oyekigho Erhun
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:315
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  21. Home-based healthcare services are facing challenges and pressures of increasing needs due to an ageing population, rising workload for an overburdened workforce, and limited financial resources. The trust mod...

    Authors: Ruth-Ellen Slåtsveen, Torunn Wibe, Liv Halvorsrud and Anne Lund
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:314
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  23. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is commonly managed in general practice, with established guidelines for diagnosis and management. CKD is more prevalent in the older population, and is associated with lifestyle d...

    Authors: Michelle Guppy, Esther Joy Bowles, Paul Glasziou and Jenny Doust
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:312
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  24. Hypertension is a common heart condition in the United States (US) and severely impacts racial and ethnic minority populations. While the understanding of hypertension has grown considerably, there remain gaps...

    Authors: Emmanuel Adediran, Robert Owens, Elena Gardner, Andrew Curtin, John Stuligross, Danielle Forbes, Jing Wang and Dominik Ose
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:311
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  25. Mental health problems represent a large and growing public health concern. Primary care handles most of the patients with mental health problems, but there are many barriers to detection and treatment in this...

    Authors: Hanna Israelsson Larsen, Kristin Thomas, Lise Bergman Nordgren, Erica Skagius Ruiz, Kocher Koshnaw and Per Nilsen
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:310
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  27. While osteoarthritis is a significant issue within the hemodialysis population and contributes to reduced quality of life, pain related to osteoarthritis is poorly managed by healthcare professionals (HCPs) in...

    Authors: Mai Mohsen, Angelina Abbaticchio, Tracy Zhang, S Vanita Jassal and Marisa Battistella
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:308
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  28. Low socio-economic status can lead to poor patient outcomes, exacerbated by lack of integration between health and social care and there is a demand for developing new models of working.

    Authors: Kathleen Withers, Karen Pardy, Lynne Topham, Rachel Lee, Amir Ghanghro, Hazel Cryer and Huw Williams
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:307
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  29. To address the declining numbers of general practitioners (GPs) in rural areas and a lack of medical students pursuing a career in primary care, a general practice-based curriculum coupled with additional univ...

    Authors: Bibiane Kronemann, Elisabeth Joson-Teichert, Matthias Michiels-Corsten, Stefan Bösner and Jana Groth
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:306
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  30. Hypertension, a chronic medical condition affecting millions of people worldwide, is a leading cause of cardiovascular diseases. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to reduce the burden of the disease, with...

    Authors: Katrien Danhieux, Marieke Hollevoet, Sien Lismont, Pieter Taveirne, Lotte Van Vaerenbergh, Bert Vaes and Steve Van den Bulck
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:305
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  31. Lack of access to health care is a worldwide public health crisis. In primary care it has led to increases in the implementation of nurse practitioners and heightened interest in their patient panel capacity. ...

    Authors: Ruth Martin-Misener, Faith Donald, Jennifer Rayner, Nancy Carter, Kelley Kilpatrick, Erin Ziegler, Ivy Bourgeault and Denise Bryant-Lukosius
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:304
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  32. People who use illicit drugs cumulate medical and psychosocial vulnerabilities, justifying a rounded health approach. Both caregivers and patients can form barriers to accessing care, leading to inadequate car...

    Authors: Lou Richelle, Nadine Kacenelenbogen, Charles Kornreich and Margaux Aron
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:303
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  33. People with diabetes, vascular disease, and asthma often struggle to maintain stability in their chronic health conditions, particularly those in rural areas, living in poverty, or racially or ethnically minor...

    Authors: Gretchen J. R. Buchanan, Jerica M. Berge and Timothy F. Piehler
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:302
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  34. General practitioners (GPs) play a crucial role in identifying cognitive impairment and dementia and providing post-diagnostic care. This study investigates (1) how promising GP consider lifestyle changes to m...

    Authors: Josefine Kappe, Felix Wittmann, Melanie Luppa, Maria Isabel Cardona, Solveign Weise, Stephan Fuchs, Robert Philipp Kosilek, Linda Sanftenberg, Christian Brettschneider, Juliane Döhring, Catharina Escales, David Czock, Birgitt Wiese, Jochen René Thyrian, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Thomas Frese…
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:301
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  35. Mental illnesses are common among children and negatively impact wellbeing during childhood as well as later in life. However, many children with these conditions are not able to access needed mental health ca...

    Authors: Lora Daskalska, Michelle Broaddus and Staci Young
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:300
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  37. Peer support has been extensively studied in specific areas of community-based primary care such as mental health, substance use, HIV, homelessness, and Indigenous health. These programs are often built on the...

    Authors: Émilie Lessard, Nadia O’Brien, Andreea-Catalina Panaite, Marie Leclaire, Geneviève Castonguay, Ghislaine Rouly and Antoine Boivin
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:298
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  38. Evidence concerning health care use related to virtual visits is conflicting. More research has been called for regarding the effectiveness of text-based virtual visits (eVisits). Therefore, we investigated pa...

    Authors: Hanna Glock, Ulf Jakobsson, Beata Borgström Bolmsjö, Veronica Milos Nymberg, Moa Wolff and Susanna Calling
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:297
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  39. Managing diagnostic uncertainty is a major challenge in primary care due to factors such as the absence of definitive tests, variable symptom presentations and disease evolution. Maintaining patient trust duri...

    Authors: Jessica Russell, Laura Boswell, Athena Ip, Jenny Harris, Hardeep Singh, Ashley N. D. Meyer, Traber D. Giardina, Afsana Bhuiya, Katriina L. Whitaker and Georgia B. Black
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:296
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  40. Long-lasting symptoms with a possible relation to psychosomatic comorbidity have been described following COVID-19. However, data is sparse in general practice. The trial’s objective was to investigate the tim...

    Authors: Alexander Hapfelmeier, Jan Donhauser, Clara Teusen, Stefanie Eck and Antonius Schneider
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:295
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  41. Rising health care costs are a major concern in most Western countries. The substitution of healthcare stands as a strategic approach aimed at mitigating costs while offering medical services in proximity to p...

    Authors: Maarten D. Vink, France R. Portrait, Tim van Wezep, Xander Koolman, Ben W. Mol and Eric J. van der Hijden
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:294
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  42. The aim of this study is to explore the influence of GPs’information, motivation and behavior skills on EM prescribing behavior in urban and suburban districts.

    Authors: Xiaolei Chen, Zhengwen Feng, Qi Luo, Hui Li, Shuang Shao and Juan Du
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:293
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  43. The family physician team has become the core carrier for delivery primary health care in China. This study aimed to measure the effect of the network structural characteristics of family physician team proces...

    Authors: Yixiang Chen, Ziyang Zhang, En Yang, Hua Qing, Yilin Wei and Shangfeng Tang
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:292
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  44. Misuse and overuse of antibiotics comprise leading causes of antimicrobial resistance. The study aims to assess the pattern of antibiotic prescription among primary healthcare general practitioners in the Sout...

    Authors: Sami M. Al Mujaini, Zayid K. Almayahi, Noura A. Abouammoh and Sumaiya Al Amri
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:291
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  45. Little is known about the prevalence of dermatoses in “skin-well” geriatric Singaporeans. We aim to identify the prevalence of dermatoses and their associations within the geriatric population in Singapore, an...

    Authors: Lester Juay, Monil Nagad Bhupendrabhai, Siti Hafizah Binte Ahmad, Hung Chew Wong, Justin Wee-Min Chong, Wee Hian Tan and Nisha Suyien Chandran
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:290
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  46. The ‘Taking the screening tests close to the people’ program offers cardiovascular screening to the inhabitants of underprivileged settlements. This study aimed to evaluate the cardiovascular risk factors of u...

    Authors: Lilla Andréka, Orsolya Csenteri-Bárdos, Gergő József Szőllősi, Péter Andréka, Zoltán Jancsó and Péter Vajer
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:289
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  47. Obesity (body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2) is a major risk factor for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and affects most patients with HFpEF. Patients living with obesity may experience delays in H...

    Authors: Carlos Campos, Melissa Magwire, Javed Butler, Anthony Hoovler, Anup Sabharwal and Sanjiv J. Shah
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:288
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  48. Primary care plays a central role in most, if not all, health care systems including the care of vulnerable populations such as people who have been incarcerated. Studies linking incarceration records to healt...

    Authors: Janine A. Cooper, Siobhán Murphy, Richard Kirk, Dermot O’Reilly and Michael Donnelly
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:287
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  49. Cognitive impairment and dementia are frequently under-recognized. Health system strategies anchored in primary care are essential to address gaps in timely, comprehensive diagnosis. The goal of this paper is ...

    Authors: Alissa Bernstein Sideman, Huong Q. Nguyen, Annette Langer-Gould, Eric A. Lee, Soo Borson, Ernest Shen, Elena Tsoy, Mayra Macias, Collette Goode, Katherine Rankin, Joel Kramer and Katherine L. Possin
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:286
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