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  1. Psychosocial problems are more prevalent among patients with chronic diseases than among the general population. They may lead to a downward spiral of poor adherence, deterioration of the condition and decline...

    Authors: Anneke van Dijk - de Vries, Marloes A van Bokhoven, Berend Terluin, Trudy van der Weijden and Jacques Th M van Eijk
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:77
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  2. Preliminary findings suggest that web-based interventions may be effective in achieving significant weight loss and weight loss maintenance. To date only few findings within primary care patients and especiall...

    Authors: Michael Mehring, Max Haag, Klaus Linde, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Florian Frensch, Jasper Blome and Antonius Schneider
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:76
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  3. Evidences from literature suggest that Primary Care Physicians’ (PCPs) knowledge and attitude about psychological and pharmacological treatments of anxiety and depressive disorders could influence their clinic...

    Authors: Federica Casini, Cecilia Sighinolfi, Paola Tedesco, Pier Venanzio Bandieri, Maria Bologna, Niccolò Colombini, Clara Curcetti, Michele Magnani, Mara Morini, Alberto Serio, Ilaria Tarricone, Domenico Berardi and Marco Menchetti
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:75
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  4. Earlier research showed that healthcare in stroke could be better organized, aiming for improved survival and less comorbidity. Therefore, in 2004 the Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG) and the Dutch...

    Authors: Leonie de Weerd, Feikje Groenhof, Boudewijn J Kollen and Klaas van der Meer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:74
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  5. Although end-of-life care has become an issue of great clinical and public health concern in Europe and beyond, we lack population-based nationwide data that monitor and compare the circumstances of dying and ...

    Authors: Lieve Van den Block, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Koen Meeussen, Gé Donker, Francesco Giusti, Guido Miccinesi, Viviane Van Casteren, Tomas Vega Alonso, Oscar Zurriaga and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:73
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  6. Continuity is a fundamental tenet of primary care, and highly valued by patients; it may also improve patient outcomes and lower cost of health care. It is thus important to investigate factors that predict hi...

    Authors: Elizabeth Kristjansson, William Hogg, Simone Dahrouge, Meltem Tuna, Liesha Mayo-Bruinsma and Goshu Gebremichael
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:72
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  7. Women presenting with symptoms of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI) are often prescribed antibiotics. However, in 25 to 50% of symptomatic women not taking antibiotics, symptoms recover spontaneou...

    Authors: Bart J Knottnerus, Suzanne E Geerlings, Eric P Moll van Charante and Gerben ter Riet
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:71
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  8. To evaluate the effectiveness of a multifaceted implementation strategy on physicians’ referral rate to and knowledge on the community occupational therapy in dementia program (COTiD program).

    Authors: Carola ME Döpp, Maud JL Graff, Steven Teerenstra, Maria WG Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Marcel GM Olde Rikkert and Myrra JFJ Vernooij-Dassen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:70
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  9. Diabetes mellitus is a highly prevalent condition in Malaysia, increasing from 11.6% in 2006 to 15.2% in 2011 among individuals 18 years and above. Co-morbid depression in diabetics is associated with hypergly...

    Authors: Gurpreet Kaur, Guat Hiong Tee, Suthahar Ariaratnam, Ambigga S Krishnapillai and Karuthan China
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:69
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  10. Suicide is a major public health problem in young people. General Practitioners (GPs) play a central role in suicide prevention. However data about how physicians deal with suicidal youths are lacking. This st...

    Authors: Nadia Younes, Christine Chan Chee, Clement Turbelin, Thomas Hanslik, Christine Passerieux and Maria Melchior
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:68
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  11. Musculoskeletal pain in older adults is common. It is hypothesised that coping strategies may be predictive of pain intensity and pain-related disability at six months after initial consultation in primary care.

    Authors: Kay Benyon, Sara Muller, Susan Hill and Christian Mallen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:67
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  12. A number of studies have examined the influence of self-efficacy, social support and patient-provider communication (PPC) on self-care and glycemic control. Relatively few studies have tested the pathways thro...

    Authors: Junling Gao, Jingli Wang, Pinpin Zheng, Regine Haardörfer, Michelle C Kegler, Yaocheng Zhu and Hua Fu
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:66
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  13. Assessment of medical communication performance usually focuses on rating generically applicable, well-defined communication skills. However, in daily practice, communication is determined by (specific) contex...

    Authors: Geurt Essers, Anneke Kramer, Boukje Andriesse, Chris van Weel, Cees van der Vleuten and Sandra van Dulmen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:65
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  14. Early identification of frailty is important for proactive primary care. Currently, however, there is no consensus on which measure to use. Therefore, we examined whether a Frailty Index (FI), based on ICPC-co...

    Authors: Irene Drubbel, Nienke Bleijenberg, Guido Kranenburg, René JC Eijkemans, Marieke J Schuurmans, Niek J de Wit and Mattijs E Numans
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:64
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  15. Respiratory tract infections are an important burden in primary care and it’s known that they are usually self-limited and that antibiotics only alter its course slightly. This together with the alarming incre...

    Authors: Mariam de la Poza Abad, Gemma Mas Dalmau, Mikel Moreno Bakedano, Ana Isabel González González, Yolanda Canellas Criado, Silvia Hernández Anadón, Rafael Rotaeche del Campo, Pere Torán Monserrat, Antonio Negrete Palma, Guillem Pera, Eulàlia Borrell Thió, Carl LLor, Paul Little and Pablo Alonso Coello
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:63
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  17. Attention to patients with acute minor-illnesses requesting same-day consultation represents a major burden in primary care. The workload is assumed by general practitioners in many countries. A number of repo...

    Authors: Núria Fabrellas, Carmen Sánchez, Eulàlia Juvé, Eva Aurin, Dolors Monserrat, Esther Casanovas and Magali Urrea
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:61
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  18. For over two decades occupational therapists have been encouraged to enhance their roles within primary care and focus on health promotion and prevention activities. While there is a clear fit between occupati...

    Authors: Catherine Donnelly, Christie Brenchley, Candace Crawford and Lori Letts
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:60
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  19. Diet is the first line of treatment for elevated cholesterol. High-intensity dietary counseling (≥360 minutes/year of contact with providers) improves blood lipids, but is expensive and unsustainable in the cu...

    Authors: Doina Kulick, Robert D Langer, Judith M Ashley, Kim M Gans, Karen Schlauch and Chad Feller
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:59
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  20. Despite evidence of the effectiveness of cancer preventive services and the increasing development of guidelines, actual rates of delivery of cancer prevention activities remain low. Due to their frequent fron...

    Authors: Sonja McIlfatrick, Sinead Keeney, Hugh McKenna, Nigel McCarley and Gerry McElwee
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:58
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  22. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive, debilitating disease associated with significant clinical burden and is estimated to affect 15 million individuals in the US. Although a large num...

    Authors: Donna R Parker, Charles B Eaton, David K Ahern, Mary B Roberts, Caitlin Rafferty, Roberta E Goldman, F Dennis McCool and Joseph Wroblewski
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:56
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  23. Antidepressants (ADs) are commonly prescribed in primary care and are mostly indicated for depression. According to the literature, they are now more frequently prescribed for health conditions other than psyc...

    Authors: Alain Mercier, Isabelle Auger-Aubin, Jean-Pierre Lebeau, Matthieu Schuers, Pascal Boulet, Jean-Loup Hermil, Paul Van Royen and Lieve Peremans
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:55
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  24. Newly arrived immigrant patients who frequently use primary health care resources have difficulties in verbal communication. Also, they have a system of beliefs related to health and disease that makes difficu...

    Authors: Pere Torán-Monserrat, Jordi Cebrià-Andreu, Josep Arnau-Figueras, Jordi Segura-Bernal, Anna Ibars-Verdaguer, Josep Massons-Cirera, Mª Carmen Barreiro-Montaña, Sandra Santamaria-Bayes, Esther Limón-Ramírez, Juan José Montero-Alia, Carles Pérez-Testor, Guillem Pera-Blanco, Laura Muñoz-Ortiz, Carolina Palma-Sevillano, Gerard Segarra-Gutiérrez and Sergi Corbella-Santomà
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:54
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  25. Group practices are increasingly common for primary care physicians worldwide. Although breakups are likely to happen frequently within group practices, their process has not been studied to date. The aims of ...

    Authors: François Marechal, Dorothée Schmidt, Evelyne Lasserre and Laurent Letrilliart
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:53
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  26. Frail elderly people represent a major patient group in family practice. Little is known about the patients’ needs, and how their needs evolve over time with increasing frailty towards the end of life. This st...

    Authors: Gabriele Müller-Mundt, Jutta Bleidorn, Karin Geiger, Katharina Klindtworth, Sabine Pleschberger, Eva Hummers-Pradier and Nils Schneider
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:52
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  27. Interest in how to implement evidence-based practices into routine health care has never been greater. Primary care faces challenges in managing the increasing burden of chronic disease in an ageing population...

    Authors: Barbara J Booth, Nicholas Zwar and Mark F Harris
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:51
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  28. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the bacterial agent which most frequently causes pneumonia. In some Scandinavian countries, this infection is treated with penicillin V since the resistances of pneumococci to this an...

    Authors: Carl Llor, Javier Arranz, Rosa Morros, Anna García-Sangenís, Helena Pera, Joan Llobera, Mireia Guillén-Solà, Eugenia Carandell, Jesús Ortega, Silvia Hernández and Marc Miravitlles
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:50
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  29. Worldwide, the population is ageing, resulting in an associated increase in dementia prevalence. Forgetfulness in elderly people is often perceived as normal in some local cultures and thus, the early detectio...

    Authors: Zurraini Arabi, Noor Azah Aziz, Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz, Rosdinom Razali and Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:49
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  30. In the period 2004–2009, national and regional initiatives were developed in Sweden to improve the quality of sickness certificates. Parameters for assessing the quality of sickness certificates in primary hea...

    Authors: Ylva Skånér, Britt Arrelöv, Lars G Backlund, Magdalena Fresk, Amanda Waleh Åström and Gunnar H Nilsson
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:48
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  31. Patients do not always receive guideline-adherent therapy, yet little is known about the underlying causes on the patients’ side. We quantified non-guideline-adherent treatment of chronic diseases (diabetes me...

    Authors: Johanna Fürthauer, Maria Flamm and Andreas Sönnichsen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:47
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  32. Routinely conducting case finding (also commonly referred to as screening) in patients with chronic illness for depression in primary care appears to have little impact. We explored the views and experiences o...

    Authors: Margaret Maxwell, Fiona Harris, Carina Hibberd, Eddie Donaghy, Rebekah Pratt, Chris Williams, Jill Morrison, Jennifer Gibb, Philip Watson and Chris Burton
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:46
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  33. Cost-effectiveness studies of lifestyle interventions in people at risk for lifestyle-related diseases, addressing ‘real-world’ implementation, are needed. This study examines the cost-effectiveness of a prima...

    Authors: Marieke F van Wier, Jeroen Lakerveld, Sandra D M Bot, Mai J M Chinapaw, Giel Nijpels and Maurits W van Tulder
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:45
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  34. The effectiveness of nurse-led motivational interviewing (MI) in routine diabetes care in general practice is inconclusive. Knowledge about the extent to which nurses apply MI skills and the factors that affec...

    Authors: Renate Jansink, Jozé Braspenning, Miranda Laurant, Ellen Keizer, Glyn Elwyn, Trudy van der Weijden and Richard Grol
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:44
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  35. Semi- structured interviews are the core of the Dutch selection procedure for postgraduate general practice (GP) training. A staff member, trainer and trainee independently assess personal qualities. Aiming to...

    Authors: Margit I Vermeulen, Marijke M Kuyvenhoven, Nicolaas P A Zuithoff, Yolanda van der Graaf and Roger A M J Damoiseaux
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:43
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  36. Little is known about how GPs determine whether and when patients need palliative care. Little research has been done regarding the assumption underpinning Lynn and Adamson’s model that palliative care may sta...

    Authors: Susanne JJ Claessen, Anneke L Francke, Yvonne Engels and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:42
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  37. Health reforms in many countries affect the scope and nature of primary care. General Practitioners (GPs) are expected to spend more time developing public health, preventive health care, coordination of care ...

    Authors: Peder Andreas Halvorsen, Adrian Edwards, Ivar Johannes Aaraas, Olaf Gjerløw Aasland and Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:41
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  38. The role of a patient’s functional health literacy (HL) has received much attention in the context of diabetes education, but researchers have not fully investigated the roles of communicative and critical HL,...

    Authors: Machiko Inoue, Miyako Takahashi and Ichiro Kai
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:40
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  39. HIV has become a chronic manageable infection in the developed world, and early and lifelong treatment has the potential to significantly reduce transmission rates in the community. A skilled and motivated HIV...

    Authors: Christy E Newman, Asha Persson, John BF de Wit, Robert H Reynolds, Peter G Canavan, Susan C Kippax and Michael R Kidd
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:39
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  40. The prevalence of depression in people with coronary heart disease (CHD) is high but little is known about patients’ own perceptions and experiences of this. This study aimed to explore (i) primary care (PC) p...

    Authors: Rosemary L Simmonds, Andre Tylee, Paul Walters and Diana Rose
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:38
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  41. Since the early 1990s former communist countries have been reforming their health care systems, emphasizing the key role of primary care and recognizing family medicine as a specialty and an academic disciplin...

    Authors: Anna Krztoń-Królewiecka, Igor Švab, Marek Oleszczyk, Bohumil Seifert, W Henry Smithson and Adam Windak
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:37
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  42. The successful implementation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines relies heavily on primary care physicians (PCPs) providing risk factor evaluation, intervention and patient education. The ai...

    Authors: Carlos Brotons, José Maria Lobos, Miguel Ángel Royo-Bordonada, Antonio Maiques, Ana de Santiago, Ángel Castellanos, Santiago Diaz, Juan Carlos Obaya, Juan Pedro-Botet, Irene Moral, Vicenta Lizarbe, Rosa Moreno, Antonio Pérez, Alberto Cordero, Francisco Fornés-Ubeda, Benilde Serrano-Saiz…
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:36
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  43. Childhood fever represents a frequent cause to consult a primary care physician. “Fever phobia” describes a fearful and irrational view of fever shared by many parents with different cultural backgrounds. The ...

    Authors: Thorsten Langer, Miriam Pfeifer, Aynur Soenmez, Vera Kalitzkus, Stefan Wilm and Wilfried Schnepp
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:35
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  44. Coordination of care is considered a key component of patient-centered health care systems, but is rarely defined or operationalised in health care policy. Continuity, an aspect of coordination, is the patient...

    Authors: Michelle Banfield, Karen Gardner, Ian McRae, James Gillespie, Robert Wells and Laurann Yen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:34
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  45. To improve the management of hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA), a multidisciplinary guideline-based stepped-care strategy (SCS) with recommendations regarding the appropriate non-surgical treatment modalities an...

    Authors: Agnes J Smink, Sita MA Bierma-Zeinstra, Joost Dekker, Thea PM Vliet Vlieland, Johannes WJ Bijlsma, Bart A Swierstra, Joke H Kortland, Theo B Voorn, Cornelia HM van den Ende and Henk J Schers
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:33
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  46. To describe the current treatment gap in management of cardiovascular risk factors in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes in general practice as well as the associated financial and therapeutic bur...

    Authors: John Furler, Justin W S Hii, Danny Liew, Irene Blackberry, James Best, Leonie Segal and Doris Young
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:32
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  47. Family history (FH) is considered an important factor to detect individuals at increased risk developing type 2 diabetes (T2D). Moreover, FH information could be used to personalise risk messages, which are as...

    Authors: Suzanne CM van Esch, Wieke H Heideman, Wilmy Cleijne, Martina C Cornel and Frank J Snoek
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:31
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  48. Fragmentation within health care systems may negatively impact the quality of chronic disease patient care. We sought to evaluate the relationship between care management processes (CMP), integration of servic...

    Authors: Ken Wong, Luke Boulanger, Amy Smalarz, Ning Wu, Kimberly Fraser and Jenifer Wogen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:30
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  49. The editors of BMC Family Practice would like to thank all the reviewers who have contributed to the journal in volume 13 (2012).

    Authors: Christopher Foote
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:18
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  50. Until now, cardiometabolic risk assessment in Dutch primary health care was directed at case-finding, and structured, programmatic prevention is lacking. Therefore, the Prevention Consultation cardiometabolic ...

    Authors: Victor Van der Meer, Markus MJ Nielen, Anton JM Drenthen, Mieke Van Vliet, Willem JJ Assendelft and Francois G Schellevis
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2013 14:29
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