Discussing prognosis with older people with musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study in general practice.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impact of caring for a family member or friend is a life changing experience. Often carers are struggling to cope with ongoing demands of caring for someone. At some point, most carers will approach their family physician for advice on aspects of their role. Carers Western Australia sought information an...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Bulsara CE,Fynn N

更新日期：2006-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variety of psychological interventions to treat depressive disorders have been developed and are used in primary care. In a systematic review, we compared the effectiveness of psychological treatments grouped by theoretical background, intensity of contact with the health care professional, and delivery mo...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Linde K,Rücker G,Sigterman K,Jamil S,Meissner K,Schneider A,Kriston L

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Better management of affective and somatoform disorders may reduce consultation rates in primary care. Somatoform disorders are highly prevalent in primary care and co-morbidity with affective disorders is substantial, but it is as yet unclear which portion of the health care use may be ascribed to each diso...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： de Waal MW,Arnold IA,Eekhof JA,Assendelft WJ,van Hemert AM

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 the effect of a message inviting patients to ask for a tetanus booster vaccination. METHODS:A quasi e...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Eubelen C,Brendel F,Belche JL,Freyens A,Vanbelle S,Giet D

更新日期：2011-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Female urinary incontinence is underdiagnosed and undertreated in primary care. There is little evidence on factors that determine whether women with urinary incontinence are referred to specialist services. This study aimed to investigate characteristics associated with referrals from primary to specialist ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Gurol-Urganci I,Geary RS,Mamza JB,Iwagami M,El-Hamamsy D,Duckett J,Wilson A,Tincello D,van der Meulen J

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Warfarin is used for the prevention of stroke in chronic atrial fibrillation. The product has a narrow therapeutic index and to obtain treatment success, patients must be maintained within a given therapeutic range (International Normalised Ratio;INR). To ensure a wise allocation of health care resources, sc...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Björholt I,Andersson S,Nilsson GH,Krakau I

更新日期：2007-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medication error is a frequent, harmful and costly patient safety incident. Research to date has mostly focused on medication errors in hospitals. In this study, we aimed to identify the main causes of, and solutions to, medication error in primary care. METHODS:We used a novel priority-setting method for i...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Tudor Car L,Papachristou N,Gallagher J,Samra R,Wazny K,El-Khatib M,Bull A,Majeed A,Aylin P,Atun R,Rudan I,Car J,Bell H,Vincent C,Franklin BD

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is prevalent in people with type 2 diabetes and affects both glycemic control and overall quality of life. The aim of this trial was to evaluate the effect of the antidepressant paroxetine on metabolic control, quality of life and mental well-being in mildly depressed women with type 2 diabetes. ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Paile-Hyvärinen M,Wahlbeck K,Eriksson JG

更新日期：2003-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) has contributed to detecting cognitive impairment, yet few studies have evaluated its accuracy when used by general practitioners (GP) in an actual public-health setting. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the accuracy of MMSE scores obtained by GPs by comparing them to scores ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Pezzotti P,Scalmana S,Mastromattei A,Di Lallo D,Progetto Alzheimer Working Group.

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maintaining a maternity care system is one of the biggest issues in Japan due to the decreasing number of obstetricians, especially in remote areas and islands. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the challenges in women's health and maternity care in remote areas and islands for primary care ph...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Shibata A,Kaneko M,Inoue M

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:User reported experiences and satisfaction are increasingly used as basis for quality indicators in the health sector. However, there is limited understanding of factors associated with user reported experiences and satisfaction with casualty clinics. METHODS:A random sample of 542 patients that had contact...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Danielsen K,Bjertnaes OA,Garratt A,Forland O,Iversen HH,Hunskaar S

更新日期：2010-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The utility of clinical exercise tests depends on their support of treatment decisions. We sought to assess the utility of exercise tests for the selection of primary-care patients for referral to cardiologic care, and to determine whether referral decisions were biased by gender or socioeconomic status. We ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Nilsson G,Mooe T,Söderström L,Samuelsson E

更新日期：2014-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frailty is a condition of increasing importance, given the aging adult population. With an anticipated shortage of geriatricians, primary care physicians will increasingly need to manage care for frail adults with complex functional risks and social-economic circumstances. METHODS:We used cross-sectional da...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Lee DR,Santo EC,Lo JC,Ritterman Weintraub ML,Patton M,Gordon NP

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As in other countries, there is concern and some fragmentary evidence that GPs' central role in the Swiss healthcare system as the primary provider of care might be changing or even be in decline. Our study gives a systematic account of GPs' involvement in accident care from 2008 to 2016 and identifies chang...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Höglinger M,Knöfler F,Schaumann-von Stosch R,Scholz-Odermatt SM,Eichler K

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Survivers of stroke or transient ischaemic attacks (TIA) are at risk of new vascular events. Our objective was to study primary health care patients with stroke/TIA regarding their knowledge about risk factors for having a new event of stroke/TIA, possible associations between patient characteristics and pat...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Sloma A,Backlund LG,Strender LE,Skånér Y

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive antibiotics use increases the risk of resistance. Previous studies have shown that the Centor score combined with Rapid Antigen Detection Test (RADT) for Group A Streptococci can reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in patients with sore throat. According to the former Swedish guidelines RADT ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Gröndal H,Hedin K,Strandberg EL,André M,Brorsson A

更新日期：2015-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multimorbidity is defined as suffering from coexistent chronic conditions. Multimorbid patients demand highly complex patient-centered care which often includes polypharmacy, taking an average of six different drugs per day. Adverse drug reactions, adverse drug events and medication errors are all potential ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Köberlein J,Gottschall M,Czarnecki K,Thomas A,Bergmann A,Voigt K

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic meningitis is defined as symptoms and signs of meningeal inflammation and persisting cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities such as elevated protein level and pleocytosis for at least one month. CASE PRESENTATION:A 62-year-old woman, of unremarkable past medical history, was admitted to hospital for inve...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Boos C,Daneshvar C,Hinton A,Dawes M

更新日期：2004-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The average delay in diagnosis for patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is 7 to 10 years. Factors that contribute to this delay are multifactorial and include the lack of diagnostic criteria (although classification criteria exist) for axSpA and the difficulty in distinguishing inflammatory back pai...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Lapane KL,Khan S,Shridharmurthy D,Beccia A,Dubé C,Yi E,Kay J,Liu SH

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing number of available point-of-care (POC) tests challenges clinicians regarding decisions on which tests to use, how to efficiently use them, and how to interpret the results. Although POC tests may offer benefits in terms of low turn-around-time, improved patient's satisfaction, and health outc...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Kip MMA,Hummel JM,Eppink EB,Koffijberg H,Hopstaken RM,IJzerman MJ,Kusters R

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is recommended in most depression treatment guidelines and proved to be a suitable treatment for elderly depressed patients. Despite the favorable results of IPT in research populations, the dissemination to general practice is surprisingly limited. Little is known about upt...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： van Schaik DJ,van Marwijk HW,Beekman AT,de Haan M,van Dyck R

更新日期：2007-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical guidelines exhort clinicians to encourage patients to improve their health behaviours. However, most offer little support on how to have these conversations in practice. Clinicians fear that health behaviour change talk will create interactional difficulties and discomfort for both clinician and pat...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Albury C,Hall A,Syed A,Ziebland S,Stokoe E,Roberts N,Webb H,Aveyard P

更新日期：2019-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to demographic change, general practitioners (GPs) are increasingly required to care for older people with complex health problems. Little is known about the subjective appraisals of GPs concerning the demanded changes. Our objective is to explore how general practitioners view their professional mandate...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Herzog A,Gaertner B,Scheidt-Nave C,Holzhausen M

更新日期：2015-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is some evidence to support a risk-stratified, multi-disciplinary approach to manage patients with hypertension in primary care. The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of care (QOC) of a multi-disciplinary Risk Assessment and Management Programme for Hypertension (RAMP-HT) for hypertensive pa...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Yu EY,Wan EY,Chan KH,Wong CK,Kwok RL,Fong DY,Lam CL

更新日期：2015-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:General Practitioners (GPs) employ strategies to identify and retrieve medical evidence for clinical decision making which take workload and time constraints into account. Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) initially developed to study animal foraging for food is used to explore the information searching behaviou...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Dwairy M,Dowell AC,Stahl JC

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Māori men in New Zealand have higher mortality from prostate cancer, despite having lower incidence rates. The objective of this study was to examine patterns of screening for prostate cancer in primary care and follow-up investigations after an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) result in Māori and no...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Obertová Z,Scott N,Brown C,Hodgson F,Stewart A,Holmes M,Lawrenson R

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In medical malpractice litigations in recent years in Japan, it is notable that the growing number of medical litigation cases includes the issue of a doctor's explanation to the patient as a pivotal point. The objective of this study was to identify factors of physicians' communication skills with patients,...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Hamasaki T,Takehara T,Hagihara A

更新日期：2008-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many countries, general practitioner (GP) care of acute low back pain often does not adhere to evidence-based clinical guidelines. There has been little exploration of this deviation from evidence-based care from the patients' perspective, particularly in relation to patients' care expectations. The aim o...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Hoffmann TC,Del Mar CB,Strong J,Mai J

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 improvement (CQI). The survey was been undertaken by 3500 practices and over a million patients betwee...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Allan J,Schattner P,Stocks N,Ramsay E

更新日期：2009-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unattached patients do not have a regular primary care provider. Initiatives are being developed to increase attachment rates across Canada. Most existing attention paid to patient unattachment has focused on quantifying the problem and health system costs. Our purpose is to qualitatively identify the implic...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Crooks VA,Agarwal G,Harrison A

更新日期：2012-07-16 00:00:00