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  1. Doctors and nurses are two natural partners in the healthcare team, but they usually differ in their perspectives on how to work for increased health. These professions may also have different beliefs about me...

    Authors: Ann-Charlotte MÃ¥rdby, Ingemar Ã…kerlind and Tove Hedenrud
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:35
  2. The aim of this article was to address questions on how parents use the internet to find information and support regarding children, health and family life. Another aim was to find out how professionals use th...

    Authors: Lars Plantin and Kristian Daneback
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:34
  3. Despite increased investment in primary care research and development (R&D), the level of engagement of primary healthcare professionals with research remains poor. The aim of this study is to assess the level...

    Authors: Liam G Glynn, Ciara O'Riordan, Anne MacFarlane, John Newell, Alberto A Iglesias, David Whitford, Peter Cantillon and Andrew W Murphy
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:33
  4. The increasing attention on functional assessments in medical and vocational rehabilitation requires a focus change for the general practitioners (GP) into paying attention to patient resources, possibilities ...

    Authors: Nina Østerås, Pål Gulbrandsen, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth, Dag Hofoss and Søren Brage
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:31
  5. There have been numerous efforts to improve and assure the quality of treatment and follow-up of people with Type 2 diabetes (PT2D) in general practice. Facilitated by the increasing usability and validity of ...

    Authors: Trine Lignell Guldberg, Torsten Lauritzen, Jette Kolding Kristensen and Peter Vedsted
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:30
  6. Patients with severe mental illness (SMI) experience distress and disabilities in several aspects of life, and they have a higher risk of somatic co-morbidity. Both patients and their family members need the s...

    Authors: Marian JT Oud, Jan Schuling, Cees J Slooff, Klaas H Groenier, Janny H Dekker and Betty Meyboom-de Jong
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:29
  7. The Rourke Baby Record (RBR) – http://​www.​rourkebabyrecord​.​ca – is a freely available evidence-based structured form for child health surveillance from...

    Authors: Leslie Rourke, Marshall Godwin, James Rourke, Sarah Pearce and Joyce Bean
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:28
  8. Stroke is a major cause of mortality and morbidity with potential for improved care and prevention through general practice. A national survey was undertaken to determine current resources and needs for optima...

    Authors: David L Whitford, Anne Hickey, Frances Horgan, Bernadette O'Sullivan, Hannah McGee and Desmond O'Neill
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:27
  9. Diabetes specific emotional problems interfere with the demanding daily management of living with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Possibly, offering direct feedback on diabetes management may diminish the pre...

    Authors: Uriëll L Malanda, Sandra DM Bot, Piet J Kostense, Frank J Snoek, Jacqueline M Dekker and Giel Nijpels
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:26
  10. Although multimorbidity has important implications for patient care in general practice, limited research has examined chronic illness and health service utilisation among problem drug users. This study aimed ...

    Authors: Walter Cullen, Sarah O'Brien, Austin O'Carroll, Fergus D O'Kelly and Gerard Bury
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:25
  11. Lipid-lowering medication remains underused, even in high-risk populations. The objective of this study was to determine factors underlying general practitioners' decisions not to prescribe such drugs to patie...

    Authors: Elisabeth AB, Petra Denig, Ton van Vliet and Janny H Dekker
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:24
  12. High blood pressure is a significant health problem world-wide. Physician factors play a significant role in the suboptimal control of hypertension in the United States. We sought to better understand primary ...

    Authors: Randy Wexler, Terry Elton, Christopher A Taylor, Adam Pleister and David Feldman
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:23
  13. Telephone interruptions during consultations are one cause of work-related stress amongst general practitioners. Many health care centers recommend that patients turn off any mobile phones to avoid interruptio...

    Authors: Ludovic Reveiz and Sylvia de Aguiar
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:21
  14. After some years of a downward trend, antibiotic prescribing rates in the community have tended to level out in many countries. There is also wide variation in antibiotic prescribing between general practices,...

    Authors: Sharon A Simpson, Christopher C Butler, Kerry Hood, David Cohen, Frank Dunstan, Meirion R Evans, Stephen Rollnick, Laurence Moore, Monika Hare, Marie-Jet Bekkers and John Evans
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:20
  15. Professional medical organizations recommend individualized patient decision making about prostate cancer screening. Little is known about primary care physicians' use of pre-screening discussions to promote i...

    Authors: Suzanne K Linder, Sarah T Hawley, Crystale P Cooper, Lawrence E Scholl, Maria Jibaja-Weiss and Robert J Volk
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:19
  16. The development of best practices to promote physician wellbeing at the individual and organisational levels is receiving increased attention. Few studies have documented how physicians perceive their wellbein...

    Authors: Brenda L Lovell, Raymond T Lee and Erica Frank
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:18
  17. General practitioners sometimes base clinical decisions on gut feelings alone, even though there is little evidence of their diagnostic and prognostic value in daily practice. Research into these aspects and t...

    Authors: Erik Stolper, Marloes van Bokhoven, Paul Houben, Paul Van Royen, Margje van de Wiel, Trudy van der Weijden and Geert Jan Dinant
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:17
  18. Smokers attribute respiratory symptoms, even when severe, to everyday causes and not as indicative of ill-health warranting medical attention. The aim of this pilot study was to conduct a structured vignette s...

    Authors: Moyez Jiwa, Hayley Arnet, Georgia Halkett, Marthe Smith, Moira O'Connor, Julia Rhodes, Kate Poland and Max Bulsara
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:16
  19. A considerable amount of resource allocation decisions take place daily at the point of the clinical encounter; especially in primary care, where 80 percent of health problems are managed. Ignoring economic ev...

    Authors: Chantale Lessard, André-Pierre Contandriopoulos and Marie-Dominique Beaulieu
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:15
  20. Physicians in small to moderate primary care practices in the United States (U.S.) (<25 physicians) face unique challenges in implementing quality improvement (QI) initiatives, including limited resources, sma...

    Authors: Daniel Wolfson, Elizabeth Bernabeo, Brian Leas, Shoshanna Sofaer, Gregory Pawlson and Donna Pillittere
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:14
  21. The Patient Participation Program (PPP) was a patient satisfaction survey endorsed by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and designed to assist general practitioners in continuous quality im...

    Authors: James Allan, Peter Schattner, Nigel Stocks and Emmae Ramsay
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:13
  22. Dizziness in general practice is very common, especially in elderly patients. The empirical evidence for diagnostic tests in the evaluation of dizziness is scarce. Aim of our study was to determine which set o...

    Authors: Otto R Maarsingh, Jacquelien Dros, Henk C van Weert, François G Schellevis, Patrick J Bindels and Henriette E van der Horst
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:12
  23. The chance of an influenza pandemic is real and clinicians should keep themselves informed about the rationale and science behind preventive and therapeutic principles relating to an (impending) influenza pand...

    Authors: Wim Opstelten, Jim E van Steenbergen, Gerrit A van Essen and Marianne AB van der Sande
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:11
  24. Patients' priorities and views on quality care are well-documented in Western countries but there is a dearth of research in this area in the East. The aim of the present study was to explore Chinese patients'...

    Authors: Colman SC Fung and Stewart W Mercer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:10
  25. Sleep problems are common, affecting over a third of adults in the United Kingdom and leading to reduced productivity and impaired health-related quality of life. Many of those whose lives are affected seek me...

    Authors: A Niroshan Siriwardena, Tanefa Apekey, Michelle Tilling, Andrew Harrison, Jane V Dyas, Hugh C Middleton, Roderick Ørner, Tracey Sach, Michael Dewey and Zubair M Qureshi
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:9
  26. Patients with overactive bladder (OAB) are under-diagnosed in the primary care setting. Primary care physicians (PCP) approach to the patient and appropriate patient disclosure may contribute to under-diagnosis.

    Authors: Wellman W Cheung, Nadia H Khan, Karmina K Choi, Martin H Bluth and Miriam T Vincent
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:8
  27. In the UK, 8–15% of women suffer from postnatal depression with long term consequences for maternal mood and child development. Current guidelines state that health visitors and GPs should continue to have a m...

    Authors: Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Deborah Sharp, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Liz Folkes and Katrina M Turner
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:7
  28. Previous studies of inter-practice variation of the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus showed wide variations between practices. However, in these studies inter-practice variation was calculated ...

    Authors: Markus MJ Nielen, François G Schellevis and Robert A Verheij
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:6
  29. A criticism of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in primary care is that they lack external validity, participants being unrepresentative of the wider population. Our aim was to determine whether published p...

    Authors: Ritu Jones, Robert O Jones, Colin McCowan, Alan A Montgomery and Tom Fahey
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:5
  30. Outcomes from GPs' consultations have been measured mainly with disease specific measures and with patient questionnaires about health, satisfaction, enablement and quality. The aim of this study was to explor...

    Authors: Annika Andén, Sven-Olof Andersson and Carl-Edvard Rudebeck
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:4
  31. Increased use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) has been associated with increased prostate cancer incidence. Ireland is estimated to have one of the highest prostate cancer incidences in Europe and has no na...

    Authors: Frances J Drummond, Anne-Elie Carsin, Linda Sharp and Harry Comber
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:3
  32. While bio-medically, menopause could be treated as an illness, from a psychosocial and cultural perspective it could be seen as a "natural" process without requiring medication unless severe symptoms are present.

    Authors: Serap Y Cifcili, Mehmet Akman, Abdullah Demirkol, Pemra C Unalan and Etienne Vermeire
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:2
  33. Benzodiazepines are frequently prescribed to elderly patients' despite concerns about adverse effects leading to injurious falls. Previous studies have not investigated the extent to which patients with pre-ex...

    Authors: Gillian Bartlett, Michal Abrahamowicz, Roland Grad, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre and Robyn Tamblyn
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2009 10:1
  34. In some Western countries, more and more patients seek initial treatment even for minor injuries at emergency units of hospitals. The initial evaluation and treatment as well as aftercare of these patients req...

    Authors: Patrik R Schwab, Lorin M Benneker, Stefan Eggli, Heinz Zimmermann and Aristomenis K Exadaktylos
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:69
  35. Refugees and asylum seekers experience language barriers in general practice. Qualitative studies have found that responses to language barriers in general practice are ad hoc with use of both professional interp...

    Authors: Anne MacFarlane, Liam G Glynn, Phillip I Mosinkie and Andrew W Murphy
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:68
  36. People with non-diabetic hyperglycaemia might be at risk of lacking adequate control for cardiovascular risk factors. Our aim was to determine the extent of health care utilization and provision in primary car...

    Authors: Paul GH Janssen, Kees J Gorter, Ronald P Stolk, Mehmet Akarsubasi and Guy EHM Rutten
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:67
  37. Obesity has become a global pandemic, considered the sixth leading cause of mortality by the WHO. As gatekeepers to the health system, General Practitioners are placed in an ideal position to manage obesity. Y...

    Authors: Marlene Tham and Doris Young
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:66
  38. Central to establishing continuity of care is the development of a relationship between doctor and patient/caregiver. Transfer of information between these parties facilitates the development of continuity in ...

    Authors: Valorie A Crooks and Gina Agarwal
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:65
  39. Most diagnostic tests for acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) have been previously studied in so-called single-test evaluations. In practice, however, clinicians use more than one test in the d...

    Authors: Bart J Knottnerus, Patrick JE Bindels, Suzanne E Geerlings, Eric P Moll van Charante and Gerben ter Riet
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:64
  40. Lithuanian primary health care (PHC) is undergoing changes from the systems prevalent under the Soviet Union, which ensured free access to specialised health care. Currently four different PHC models work in p...

    Authors: Andrzej Zielinski, Anders HÃ¥kansson, Arnoldas Jurgutis, Ingvar Ovhed and Anders Halling
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:63
  41. General practitioners (GPs) are ideally placed to bridge the widely noted evidence-practice gap between current management of NVAF and the need to increase anticoagulant use to reduce the risk of fatal and dis...

    Authors: Melina Gattellari, John M Worthington, Nicholas A Zwar and Sandy Middleton
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:62
  42. Diuretics are recommended as initial treatment for hypertension. Several studies have suggested suboptimal persistence and adherence to thiazide diuretic monotherapy; this study compared patient persistence an...

    Authors: Bimal V Patel, Rosemay A Remigio-Baker, Patrick Thiebaud, Ronald Preblick and Craig Plauschinat
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:61
  43. Gender-related differences are seen in multiple aspects of both health and illness. Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a pathology in which diagnostic, treatment and prognostic differences are seen between sexes,...

    Authors: Inés Cruz, Catalina Serna, Jordi Real, Gisela Galindo, Eduardo Gascó and Leonardo Galván
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:60
  44. For respiratory allergic disorders in children, sublingual immunotherapy has been developed as an alternative to subcutaneous immunotherapy. Sublingual immunotherapy is more convenient, has a good safety profi...

    Authors: Cindy MA de Bot, Heleen Moed, Marjolein Y Berger, Esther Röder, Hans de Groot, Johan C de Jongste, Roy Gerth van Wijk and Johannes C van der Wouden
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:59
  45. The general practitioner (GP) can play an important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle, which is especially relevant in people with an elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases due to hypertension. Therefore...

    Authors: Ivon EJ Milder, Anneke Blokstra, Judith de Groot, Sandra van Dulmen and Wanda JE Bemelmans
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:58
  46. The reduction in the number of unnecessary prescriptions of antibiotics has become one of the most important objectives for primary health care. German GPs report that they are under "pressure to prescribe" an...

    Authors: Selime Sahlan, Anja Wollny, Silke Brockmann, Angela Fuchs and Attila Altiner
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:57
  47. To assess the accuracy of findings from the clinical history, symptoms, signs and diagnostic tests (ECG, CXR and natriuretic peptides) in relation to the diagnosis of left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVS...

    Authors: V Madhok, G Falk, A Rogers, AD Struthers, FM Sullivan and T Fahey
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:56
  48. Patients in hospital can develop complaints unrelated to the condition they are admitted for. The treating specialist will then call upon a co-specialist who is specialized in the clinical picture associated w...

    Authors: J Mulder, KH Groenier, JH Dekker, AJ Berendsen and J Schuling
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2008 9:55

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