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  1. Patient 'enablement' is a term closely aligned with 'empowerment' and its measurement in a general practice consultation has been operationalised in the widely used patient enablement instrument (PEI), a patie...

    Authors: Stewart W Mercer, Bhautesh D Jani, Margaret Maxwell, Samuel YS Wong and Graham CM Watt
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2012 13:6
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  2. Despite warfarin's marked efficacy, not all eligible patients receive it for stroke prevention in AF. The aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the association between prescriber and/or patient characteris...

    Authors: Victoria L Baczek, Wendy T Chen, Jeffrey Kluger and Craig I Coleman
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2012 13:5
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  3. While increasing attention is being paid to enabling terminal patients to remain at home until death, limited information is available on the circumstances in which people at home actually die. Therefore this ...

    Authors: Kathleen Leemans, Lieve Van den Block, Johan Bilsen, Joachim Cohen, Nicole Boffin and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2012 13:4
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  4. The use of oral corticosteroids as treatment of COPD exacerbations in primary care is well established and evidence-based. However, the most appropriate dosage regimen has not been determined and remains contr...

    Authors: Marianne de Vries, Annette J Berendsen, Henk EP Bosveld, Huib AM Kerstjens and Thys van der Molen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2012 13:3
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  5. Procedures documented by general practitioners in primary care have not been studied in relation to procedure coding systems. We aimed to describe procedures documented by Swedish general practitioners in elec...

    Authors: Anna Vikström, Maria Hägglund, Mikael Nyström, Lars-Erik Strender, Sabine Koch, Per Hjerpe, Ulf Lindblad and Gunnar H Nilsson
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2012 13:2
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  6. Depression is common in coronary heart disease (CHD). Affected patients have an increased incidence of coronary symptoms and death. Little is known about how best to manage primary care patients with both CHD ...

    Authors: Elizabeth A Barley, Paul Walters, André Tylee and Joanna Murray
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2012 13:1
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  7. The protection and promotion of breastfeeding is considered a priority in Europe where only 22% of infants less than 6 months old are exclusively breastfed. In Spain this percentage reaches 24.8% but in our ci...

    Authors: Susana Martín-Iglesias, Isabel del-Cura-González, Teresa Sanz-Cuesta, Celina Arana-Cañedo_Argüelles, Mercedes Rumayor-Zarzuelo, Marta Álvarez-de la Riva, Ana M Lloret-Sáez_Bravo, Rosa M Férnandez-Arroyo, José L Aréjula-Torres, Óscar Aguado-Arroyo, Francisco Góngora-Maldonado, Manuela García-Corraliza, Nazareth Sandoval-Encinas, Margarita Tomico-delRío and Ana M Cornejo-Gutiérrez
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:144
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  8. Home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) is gaining popularity among hypertensive patients. This study aimed to explore the influence of self-initiated HBPM on primary care patients with hypertension.

    Authors: Adina Abdullah and Sajaratulnisah Othman
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:143
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  9. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate and refine an adjuvant system of color-specific symbols that are added to medication bottles and to assess whether this system would increase the ability of pati...

    Authors: Roberto Cardarelli, Christopher Mann, Kimberly G Fulda, Elizabeth Balyakina, Anna Espinoza and Sue Lurie
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:142
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  10. In order for patients to adhere to advice, provided by family doctors, they must be able to recall it afterwards. However, several studies have shown that most patients do not fully understand or memorize it. ...

    Authors: Polona Selic, Igor Svab, Marija Repolusk and Nena K Gucek
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:141
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  11. The worldwide increase in obesity is becoming a major health concern. General practitioners (GPs) play a central role in managing obesity. We aimed to examine Swiss GPs self-reported practice in diagnosis and ...

    Authors: Carola A Huber, Meichun Mohler-Kuo, Ueli Zellweger, Marco Zoller, Thomas Rosemann and Oliver Senn
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:140
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  12. Depression and anxiety are common co-morbid health problems in patients with type 2 diabetes. Both depression and anxiety are associated with poor glycaemic control and increased risk of poor vascular outcomes...

    Authors: Corinne H Stoop, Viola RM Spek, Victor JM Pop and François Pouwer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:139
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  13. Communication is a key competence for health care professionals. Analysis of registrar and GP communication performance in daily practice, however, suggests a suboptimal application of communication skills. Th...

    Authors: Geurt Essers, Sandra van Dulmen, Chris van Weel, Cees van der Vleuten and Anneke Kramer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:138
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  14. Primary care teams' job satisfaction is an important issue in quality of care. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the job satisfaction of general practitioners (GPs) and non-physician staff and to explor...

    Authors: Katja Goetz, Stephen M Campbell, Jost Steinhaeuser, Bjoern Broge, Sara Willms and Joachim Szecsenyi
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:137
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  15. Research has indicated that general practitioners (GPs) have good clinical judgment in regards to diagnosing and managing herpes zoster (HZ) within clinical practice in a country with limited resources for pri...

    Authors: Christos D Lionis, Constantine I Vardavas, Emmanouil K Symvoulakis, Maria G Papadakaki, Foteini S Anastasiou, Maria D Antonopoulou, Charalampos M Apostolakis, Stelios A Dimitrakopoulos, George I Fountakis, Ilias A Grammatikopoulos, John D Komninos, Dimitris K Kounalakis, Eva S Ladoukaki, Kornilia V Makri, Chrysa S Petraki, Nikos G Ploumis…
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:136
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  16. Deficiencies in the quality of diabetes and hypertension primary care and outcomes have been documented in Barbados. This study aimed to explore the knowledge, attitudes and practices, and the barriers faced b...

    Authors: O Peter Adams and Anne O Carter
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:135
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  17. Reasons for poor guideline adherence in acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in children in high-income countries are unclear, but may be due to inconsistency between guideline recommendations, lack of evidence, and la...

    Authors: José van den Berg and Marjolein Y Berger
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:134
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  19. Psychotic conditions and especially schizophrenia, have been associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Many studies are performed in specialized settings with a strong focus on schizophrenia. Somatic ...

    Authors: Carla Truyers, Frank Buntinx, Jan De Lepeleire, Marc De Hert, Ruud Van Winkel, Bert Aertgeerts, Stefaan Bartholomeeusen and Emmanuel Lesaffre
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:132
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  20. Over 75% of mental health problems begin in adolescence and primary care has been identified as the target setting for mental health intervention by the World Health Organisation. The mobiletype program is a ment...

    Authors: Sophie C Reid, Sylvia D Kauer, Stephen JC Hearps, Alexander HD Crooke, Angela S Khor, Lena A Sanci and George C Patton
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:131
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  21. Treatment recommendations for prevention of type 2 diabetes complications often require radical and life-long health behaviour changes. Observational studies based on Self-determination theory (SDT) propose su...

    Authors: Lise Juul, Helle T Maindal, Vibeke Zoffmann, Morten Frydenberg and Annelli Sandbaek
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:130
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  22. Depressive disorders are commonly managed in primary care and family physicians are ideally placed to serve as central providers to these patients. Around the world, the prevalence of depressive disorders in p...

    Authors: Weng Yee Chin, Cindy LK Lam, Samuel YS Wong, Yvonne YC Lo, Daniel YT Fong, Tai Pong Lam, Peter WH Lee, Josephine WS Wong, Billy CF Chiu and Kit TY Chan
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:129
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  23. Most guidelines concentrate on investigations, treatment, and monitoring instead of patient history and clinical examination. We developed a guideline that dealt with the different aetiologies of chest pain by...

    Authors: Lena Kramer, Nagela Rabanizada, Jörg Haasenritter, Stefan Bösner, Erika Baum and Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:128
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  24. Several systematic reviews have summarized the evidence for specific treatments of primary care patients suffering from depression. However, it is not possible to answer the question how the available treatmen...

    Authors: Klaus Linde, Isabelle Schumann, Karin Meissner, Susanne Jamil, Levente Kriston, Gerta Rücker, Gerd Antes and Antonius Schneider
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:127
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  25. The goal of this project is to evaluate the implementation of an integrated and interdisciplinary program for prevention and management of cardiometabolic risk (PCMR). The intervention is based on the Chronic ...

    Authors: Sylvie Provost, Raynald Pineault, Pierre Tousignant, Marjolaine Hamel and Roxane Borgès Da Silva
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:126
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  26. The non-pharmacological approach to cholesterol control in patients with hyperlipidemia is based on the promotion of a healthy diet and physical activity. Thus, to help patients change their habits, it is esse...

    Authors: Luis A Pérula, Josep M Bosch, Julia Bóveda, Manuel Campiñez, Nieves Barragán, Juan C Arboniés, Jose A Prados, Enrique Martín, Remedios Martín, Josep Massons, Margarita Criado, Roger Ruiz, José A Fernández, Francisco Buitrago, Inmaculada Olaya, Modesto Pérez…
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:125
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  27. The impact of excess gestational weight gain (GWG) on maternal and child health outcomes is well documented. Understanding how health care providers view and manage GWG may assist with influencing healthy gest...

    Authors: Paige van der Pligt, Karen Campbell, Jane Willcox, Jane Opie and Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:124
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  28. According to the Word Health Organization, patients who can benefit from palliative care should be identified earlier to enable proactive palliative care. Up to now, this is not common practice and has hardly ...

    Authors: Bregje Thoonsen, Marieke Groot, Yvonne Engels, Judith Prins, Stans Verhagen, Cilia Galesloot, Chris van Weel and Kris Vissers
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:123
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  29. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an underdiagnosed cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Prevalence of COPD has been shown to be highly associated with positive smoking history and increas...

    Authors: Hanna Sandelowsky, Björn Ställberg, Anna Nager and Jan Hasselström
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:122
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  30. Poorly controlled asthma can lead to maternal and fetal complications. Despite the known risks of poorly controlled asthma during pregnancy and the need for stepping up therapy when appropriate, there are conc...

    Authors: Angelina S Lim, Kay Stewart, Michael J Abramson and Johnson George
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:121
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  31. Psychosocial stress may account for the higher prevalence of depression in women and in individuals with a low educational background. The aim of this study was to analyse the association between depression an...

    Authors: Ranja Strömberg, Lars G Backlund and Monica Löfvander
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:120
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  32. Regular physical activity is beneficial in both the prevention and management of chronic health conditions. A large proportion of adult New Zealanders, however, are insufficiently active. To help increase popu...

    Authors: Asmita Patel, Grant M Schofield, Gregory S Kolt and Justin WL Keogh
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:119
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  33. Primary health care is known to have positive effects on population health and may reduce at-risk behavior and health problems in adolescence. Yet little is known about the factors that are associated with ado...

    Authors: Bridget L Ryan, Moira Stewart, M Karen Campbell, John Koval and Amardeep Thind
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:118
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  34. A supportive patient safety culture is considered to be an essential condition for improving patient safety. Assessing the current safety culture in general practice may be a first step to target improvements....

    Authors: Dorien LM Zwart, Maaike Langelaan, Rosalinde C van de Vooren, Marijke M Kuyvenhoven, Cor J Kalkman, Theo JM Verheij and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:117
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  36. The QUALICOPC (Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe) study aims to evaluate the performance of primary care systems in Europe in terms of quality, equity and costs. The study will provide an answer to t...

    Authors: Willemijn LA Schäfer, Wienke GW Boerma, Dionne S Kringos, Jan De Maeseneer, Stefan Greß, Stephanie Heinemann, Danica Rotar-Pavlic, Chiara Seghieri, Igor Švab, Michael J Van den Berg, Milena Vainieri, Gert P Westert, Sara Willems and Peter P Groenewegen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:115
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  37. Primary care providers play an important role in preventing and managing cardiovascular disease. This study compared the quality of preventive cardiovascular care delivery amongst different primary care models.

    Authors: Clare Liddy, Jatinderpreet Singh, William Hogg, Simone Dahrouge and Monica Taljaard
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:114
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  38. Intimate partner violence is highly prevalent and mostly affects women with negative consequences for their physical and mental health. Children often witness the violence which has negative consequences for t...

    Authors: Maartje JW Loeffen, Sylvie H Lo Fo Wong, Fred PJF Wester, Miranda GH Laurant and Antoine LM Lagro-Janssen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:113
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  39. Many western countries are facing an existing or imminent shortage of primary care physicians especially in rural areas. In Germany, working in rural areas is often thought to be associated with more working h...

    Authors: Jost Steinhaeuser, Stefanie Joos, Joachim Szecsenyi and Antje Miksch
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:112
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  40. Clinicians should be aware of the diagnostic values of various symptoms, signs and antecedents. This information is particularly important in primary care settings, where sophisticated diagnostic approaches ar...

    Authors: David Medina-Bombardó and Antoni Jover-Palmer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:111
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  41. It is commonplace for lay caregivers to overlook their own health concerns when supporting someone with advanced cancer. During this time, caregivers' needs as patients are often marginalised by health profess...

    Authors: Letitia H Burridge, Geoffrey K Mitchell, Moyez Jiwa and Afaf Girgis
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:110
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  42. The identification of the attribution of economic value that users of a health system assign to a health service could be useful in planning these services. The method of contingent valuation can provide infor...

    Authors: Jesús Martín-Fernández, Francisco Javier Pérez-Rivas, Tomás Gómez-Gascón, Isabel del Cura-González, Eugenia Tello Bernabé, Gemma Rodríguez-Martínez, Elena Polentinos-Castro, Julia Domínguez-Bidagor, Gloria Ariza-Cardiel, Juan Francisco Conde-López, Milagros Beamud-Lagos, Óscar Aguado-Arroyo, Teresa Sanz-Bayona and Ana Isabel Gil-Lacruz
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:109
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  43. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the second most common bacterial infections in general practice and a frequent indication for prescription of antimicrobials. Increasing concern about the association betwee...

    Authors: Akke Vellinga, Martin Cormican, Belinda Hanahoe, Kathleen Bennett and Andrew W Murphy
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:108
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  44. Around 1% of adults are repeatedly referred from primary to secondary care with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS); many of these patients have depression and anxiety disorders which are unrecognized or inad...

    Authors: Christopher Burton, Kelly McGorm, David Weller and Michael Sharpe
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:107
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  46. Assessing asthma control using standardised questionnaires is recommended as good clinical practice but there is little evidence validating their use within primary care. There is however, strong empirical evi...

    Authors: Gaylor Hoskins, Brian Williams, Cathy Jackson, Paul D Norman and Peter T Donnan
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:105
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  47. General practitioners (GPs) often lack time and resources to invest in health education; audiovisual messages broadcast in the waiting room may be a useful educational tool. This work was designed to assess th...

    Authors: Caroline Eubelen, Fannette Brendel, Jean-Luc Belche, Anne Freyens, Sophie Vanbelle and Didier Giet
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:104
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  48. In keeping with its mission to produce doctors for rural and regional Australia, the University of Wollongong, Graduate School of Medicine has established an innovative model of clinical education. This includ...

    Authors: Judith N Hudson, Kathryn M Weston and Elizabeth A Farmer
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:103
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  50. Delay in cancer diagnosis may have serious prognostic consequences, and some patients experience delays lasting several months. However, we have no knowledge whether such delays are associated with general pra...

    Authors: Rikke P Hansen, Peter Vedsted, Ineta Sokolowski, Jens Søndergaard and Frede Olesen
    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2011 12:100
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