The use of brain natriuretic peptide as a screening test for left ventricular systolic dysfunction- cost-effectiveness in relation to open access echocardiography.

abstract：:With current moves towards an emphasis on the 'whole' patient rather than fragmenting the person into organ systems research methods need to be developed which reflect that emphasis and direct us in our endeavour as clinicians. It is possible to have a descriptive science of human behaviour which can be based upon cli...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Aldridge D,Pietroni P

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, we have investigated both patients' and family doctors' communicative characteristics towards nutrition communication in general practice with several qualitative and quantitative studies. A sound comparison of the survey results between both conversation partners has not been made before. ...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： van Dillen SM,Hiddink GJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Formal randomized controlled trial results are often reported. The difficulties of doing such trial are not. Developing countries represent a new field in which trials can be undertaken. In this context even less is known about the practicalities involved. METHOD AND RESULTS:A randomized, double-blind, para...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Glasgow NJ,Murdoch JC,Baynouna L,al Sabosy MM,al Jabiri ON,Harron DW

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural regression should not be advocated as a treatment option for cutaneous warts, given the infectious nature of this condition. Although there are numerous treatments for this condition reported in the literature, many trials are uncontrolled and many regimens are unsuitable for general practice. Specific treatme...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Steele K,Irwin WG

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heroin addiction is a major public health problem affecting both the addicted individuals and their children, who have been shown to have poor social, educational and health status and to be at higher risk of abuse than their peers. Whilst the antenatal effects of parental drug use and the overall poor outco...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Keen J,Oliver P,Rowse G,Mathers N

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Brazil, there continues to be an excessive use of emergency services by patients with elective medical problems. Those patients who report having a primary care physician are less likely to utilize the emergency department for non-urgent consultations. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to compare...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Stein AT,Harzheim E,Costa M,Busnello E,Rodrigues LC

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to find out if a training programme adapted to family physicians with several years of clinical experience changes their behaviour when they deal with fibromyalgic patients in the sense of introducing the communication skills that define the 'patient-centred' approach. METHOD...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Moral RR,Alamo MM,Jurado MA,de Torres LP

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overweight and obesity have negative health effects. Primary care clinicians are best placed to intervene in weight management. Previous reviews of weight loss interventions have included studies from specialist settings. The aim of this review was to estimate the effect of behavioural interventions delivere...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Booth HP,Prevost TA,Wright AJ,Gulliford MC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Client or consumer expectation is considered to influence their satisfaction with the service provided, but its importance has not been quantified in health care. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the effect of "patient expectations of care" on satisfaction with care provided by out-of-hours ...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： McKinley RK,Stevenson K,Adams S,Manku-Scott TK

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 317 overweight men and 565 overweight women was compared with an age-matched normal control group of 444 men and 627 women in order to establish whether hypertension was more often recorded in the obese group. This was done by analysing the continuous morbidity registration of four general practices with a ...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Bakx JC,Seidell JC,Deurenberg P,van den Hoogen HJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inter-clinician electronic consultation (eConsult) programmes are becoming more widespread in the USA as health care systems seek innovative ways of improving specialty access. Existing studies examine models with programmatic incentives or requirements for primary care providers (PCPs) to participate. OBJE...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Zallman L,Fisher CF,Ladner S,Mengistu K,Rapaport AB,Bor D,He Z,Sawady J,Stavert R,Nardin R,Bajracharya A,Pels R,Sayah A

更新日期：2020-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While health systems are striving for patient-centered care, they have little evidence to guide them on how to engage patients in their care, or how this may affect patient experiences and outcomes. OBJECTIVE:To explore which specific patient-centered aspects of care were best associated with depression imp...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Rossom RC,Solberg LI,Vazquez-Benitez G,Crain AL,Beck A,Whitebird R,Glasgow RE

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ankle-brachial index (ABI), i.e. the ratio of the ankle to brachial systolic blood pressure, is the golden standard for the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and is a highly specific method for the assessment of vascular risk in otherwise asymptomatic patients. OBJECTIVE:To assess the diagn...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Migliacci R,Nasorri R,Ricciarini P,Gresele P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Home health services play an important role in decreasing hospital admissions and physicians' medical house calls play an integral role in home health services. There is no national survey of physicians' house call practice in the Lebanon. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to provide some information abo...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Sarru E,Abyad A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The reason why patients contact a care provider, the reason for encounter (RFE), reflects patients' personal needs and expectations regarding medical care. RFEs can be symptoms or complaints, but can also be requests for diagnostic or therapeutic interventions. Objectives:Over the past 30 years, we aim to a...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： van den Broek J,van Boven K,Bor H,Uijen AA

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The rectal examination is a much advocated procedure for assessing abdominal and urinary symptoms. A Medline literature search yielded only a few studies, not one of them in a general practice setting. The sensitivity of the rectal examination to rectal carcinoma and appendicitis is low, while it is high for prostate ...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Muris JW,Starmans R,Wolfs GG,Pop P,Knottnerus JA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental health problems are underdiagnosed in general practice, primarily because they are often somatized and the patient reports only physical symptoms. These somatized symptoms are responsible for a large percentage of the frequent attenders in general practice. Palpitations are among those somatized symptoms. Here ...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Matalon A,Nachmani T,Rabin S,Maoz B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global community members who experience similar health problems gravitate to each other for information and support. Peers may be more approachable and can relate to the particular living circumstances one experiences. In well-resourced countries, people have opportunities for learning diabetes self-management; howeve...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Nettles A,Belton A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient experience and satisfaction are important indicators of quality in health care. Little is known about where to prioritize efforts to improve patient satisfaction. OBJECTIVES:To investigate patient satisfaction with primary care, as part of the Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe study in Eng...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Sirdifield C,Godoy Caballero A,Windle K,Jackson C,McKay S,Schäfer W,Siriwardena AN

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevalence of overweight in children has increased significantly in many countries in the past decades. Few parents identify their own children as overweight, especially very young children. Motivating parents is difficult, and interventions to attain normal weight often fail. OBJECTIVE:To explore parents' ...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Toftemo I,Glavin K,Lagerløv P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent medical guidelines for acute low back pain (aLBP) are unevenly followed. Based on financial criteria or associated with a desirability bias, studies incompletely describe the actual management provided by general practitioners (GPs) in terms of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of progression toward...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Lorenzo A,Schildt P,Lorenzo M,Falcoff H,Noel F

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2010, a new telephone service, NHS 111, was piloted to improve access to urgent care in England. A unique feature is the use of non-clinical call takers who triage calls with computerized decision support and have access to clinical advisors when necessary. Aim. To explore users' acceptability of NHS 111....

journal_title：Family practice

authors： O'Cathain A,Knowles E,Turner J,Nicholl J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although both hospitalization and mortality due to heart failure (HF) have been widely studied, less is known about the impact of HF on disability and quality of life. AIM:To assess the degree of disability and quality of life in HF patients attended at family medicine centres. DESIGN AND SETTING:Cross-sec...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： García-Olmos L,Batlle M,Aguilar R,Porro C,Carmona M,Alberquilla A,Sánchez-Gómez LM,Monge E,López-Rodríguez AB,Benito L,Baños N,Simón A,Martínez-Álvarez MA,Luque EM,García-Benito C

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Our objective was to evaluate the effect of training in a patient-centred intervention for GPs and practice nurses on outcomes for patients with Type II diabetes. METHODS:We carried out a randomized controlled trial within general practices as the basis for randomization and a before-and-after design for measures ...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Pill R,Stott NC,Rollnick SR,Rees M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early diagnosis of cancer is an important challenge in general practice. Symptoms are the most common starting points. OBJECTIVE:To assess the association between symptoms presented and subsequent cancer. DESIGN:A cohort study of all patients seen consecutively by GPs. Prospective recording of cancer diagn...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Ingebrigtsen SG,Scheel BI,Hart B,Thorsen T,Holtedahl K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:All Primary Care Trusts in England were meant to have shared care protocols for antidementia medication use in place by 1 April 2004. Shared care of medical treatment in dementia depends upon early diagnosis, but under-recognition of and under-response to dementia appear widespread in general practice. AIM:...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Iliffe S,Wilcock J,Haworth D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elderly patients' interaction with the GP may be improved through patient involvement techniques, and there is a variety of such techniques which improve patients' involvement in their own care, although little is known about their acceptability. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to identify barriers and...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Geest TA,Wetzels R,Raposo V,Lopes Ferreira P,Baker R,Wensing M,Olesen F,Improve Research Group.

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Poor patient adherence to lipid-lowering medication is a major contributory factor in the lack of success in treating hyperlipidaemia. The objective of this review was to assess the effect of adherence-enhancing interventions for lipid-lowering medication. DESIGN:Systematic review of randomized controlled tr...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Schedlbauer A,Schroeder K,Fahey T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The time between experiencing symptoms and treatment in cancer diseases is a time of insecurity and despair. Brain tumour disease is a severe disease with dramatic manifestations and it is important that this time be kept as short as possible. METHODS:A consecutive sample of 28 patients with malignant gliom...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Salander P,Bergenheim AT,Hamberg K,Henriksson R

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient complaining of fatigue presents the physician with the dilemma of distinguishing a psychological disorder from a physical illness in its early stage. Information relating this nonspecific complaint to specific diagnoses is scarce. Consequently, laboratory investigation of fatigue has been empirical. Five s...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Valdini AF

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00