Advance care planning and interpersonal relationships: a two-way street.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In the last decade of the 20th century, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have experienced rapid changes in health policies. This process was largely supported by international grants. After this support has ended, it is important to keep up with the development, developing its own strategi...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Seifert B,Svab I,Madis T,Kersnik J,Windak A,Steflova A,Byma S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After-hours care remains an important aspect of community practice although little is known about the views of either physicians or patients. This study presents an analysis of 12 499 after-hours calls made to a family practice centre over a five-year period, and 798 follow-up telephone interviews conducted with peopl...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Evens S,Curtis P,Talbot A,Baer C,Smart A

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Relatives who are bereaved by suicide likely consult their GP when they feel the need for professional help. GPs may play a key role in establishing who is at risk for adverse consequences of the loss as they are familiar with relatives' possible psychiatric vulnerabilities. The availability of evidence-base...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： de Groot M,van der Meer K,Burger H

更新日期：2009-10-01 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:According to literature, COPD rates are high in spite of decreasing rates of main risk factors smoking and air pollution in developed countries. general practice is a good place to survey unbiased prevalence rates. Ten studies done in general practice over the last 20 years found prevalence rates among smoke...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Gingter C,Wilm S,Abholz HH

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Palliative care services have developed mostly in urban areas. Rural areas typically are characterized by the lack of well-organized services, with primary care professionals, specifically GPs and community nurses, having to undertake most of the palliative care. Little is known, however, either of their vie...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Evans R,Stone D,Elwyn G

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessing a genetic risk for developing breast cancer is not an easy task for a GP. Current expert guidelines for referring and counselling women with a family history positive for breast cancer are complex and difficult to apply in general practice, and have only two strategies (to refer or not to refer for...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： de Bock GH,Vliet Vlieland TP,Hageman GC,Oosterwijk JC,Springer MP,Kievit J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General practitioners' perceptions of low back pain (LBP) patients were investigated through a series of in-depth semi-structured interviews, as part of a wider study which also investigated patient perceptions. An exhaustive analysis of the interview transcripts revealed six principal ways in which GPs distinguished ...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Skelton AM,Murphy EA,Murphy RJ,O'Dowd TC

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the UK, policy changes in primary health care research and development have led to the establishment of primary care research networks. These organizations aim to increase research culture, capacity and evidence base in primary care. As publicly funded bodies, these networks need to be accountable. Organizational s...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Fenton E,Harvey J,Griffiths F,Wild A,Sturt J

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) is treated in primary care by a wide range of health professionals including chiropractors, osteopaths and physiotherapists. AIMS:To explore patients and chiropractors, osteopaths and physiotherapists' beliefs about CMP and its treatment and how these beliefs influenced ca...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Parsons S,Harding G,Breen A,Foster N,Pincus T,Vogel S,Underwood M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive consultations, where both the GP and the patient had a positive impression, were compared with negative consultations, where both the GP and the patient had a negative impression. The consultations were compared with respect to tasks listed by Pendelton et al. in their 'consultation map', constituting satisfy...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Arborelius E,Bremberg S

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People with learning disabilities have become increasingly exposed to health risk with the move to community living. Yet, health promotion is poorly developed with a heavy reliance on primary care. OBJECTIVES:To elicit the perceptions of people with learning disabilities, carers and care workers regarding r...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Young AF,Chesson RA,Wilson AJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although practice nurses play an important role in implementing smoking cessation strategies in primary care, relatively little is known of their attitudes and beliefs about giving smoking cessation advice. OBJECTIVES:To describe practice nurses' attitudes towards giving smoking cessation advice. METHODS:1...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Hall S,Vogt F,Marteau TM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing medical possibilities, ageing of the population and the growing number of people with chronic illness appears to make advance care planning (ACP) inevitable. However, to what extent and how primary care providers (PCPs) provide ACP in daily practice is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE:To provide an ove...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Glaudemans JJ,Moll van Charante EP,Willems DL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary health care (PHC) renewal processes are currently ongoing in South America (SA), but their characteristics have not been systematically described. OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to describe and contrast the PHC approaches being implemented in SA to provide knowledge of current conceptions, models and cha...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Acosta Ramírez N,Giovanella L,Vega Romero R,Tejerina Silva H,de Almeida PF,Ríos G,Goede H,Oliveira S

更新日期：2016-06-01 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:The GP often has a primary function in assessing pigmented skin lesions in Denmark. No data are available on the diagnostic accuracy of this process. OBJECTIVE:We aimed to study the sensitivity, specificity and positive prognostic value of the diagnosis made by 27 trained or trainee GPs. METHOD:We tested t...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Jemec GB

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current primary prevention guidelines recommend the assessment of family history of coronary heart disease (CHD) to identify at-risk individuals. OBJECTIVE:To examine how clinicians and patients understand and communicate family history in the context of CHD risk assessment in primary care. METHODS:A quali...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Hall R,Saukko PM,Evans PH,Qureshi N,Humphries SE

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We aimed to examine the factors that were most stressful for new principals in inner-city general practice. In addition, given the concerns about retention of new principals, to ascertain whether high perceived stress translated into regret that they had joined their practice and factors that might protect f...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Ashworth M,Armstrong D

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pre-diabetes in young people is frequently unrecognized or not treated on time, with the consequent loss of opportunity for diabetes prevention. In Mexico, there is scarce information about the prevalence of pre-diabetes in young adults. OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence and risk factors for pre-diabete...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Ureña-Bogarín EL,Martínez-Ramírez HR,Torres-Sánchez JR,Hernández-Herrera A,Cortés-Sanabria L,Cueto-Manzano AM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In view of the pending mental health (MH) reform, an increase in demand of MH services is expected. Primary care physicians will presumably be involved in meeting this expected increased demand. OBJECTIVES:To identify the preferable route of service use of populations with MH problems based on data from the...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Lerner Y,Levinson D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ageing of the population results in an increasing number of people living with chronic diseases that can adversely affect their quality of life. Information on the impact of chronic diseases on quality of life can make health services more patient-centred. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to determine t...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Lam CL,Lauder IJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:recruitment targets to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often not met. Many interventions are used to improve recruitment but there is little empirical evidence on whether these approaches work. OBJECTIVE:to examine whether changes to the design and conduct of a primary care-based RCT were associated...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Fletcher K,Mant J,Roalfe A,Hobbs FD

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to ascertain GPs' views about open access to out-patient follow-up for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). METHODS:Semi-structured interviews and a postal survey were carried out in general practices in West Glamorgan UK, each with at least one IBD patient taking part in...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Cheung WY,Dove J,Lervy B,Russell IT,Williams JG

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The construction and development of a questionnaire which measures the attitudes of general practitioners towards their role in the medical care system is described. Factor analytic procedures identified seven reliable factor-based subscales. The subscales measured attitudes towards: a psychological orientation to pat...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Cockburn J,Killer D,Campbell E,Sanson-Fisher RW

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In general practice, it is too time-consuming to invite all patients for cardiovascular risk assessment. OBJECTIVE:To examine how many patients with an indication for treatment with cardiovascular medication can be identified by ad hoc case-finding when all patients with overweight/obesity are invited for r...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： de Boer AW,de Mutsert R,den Heijer M,Jukema JW,Rosendaal FR,Blom JW,Assendelft WJ,NEO study group.

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the results of a study of the handling of confidentiality by general practitioners. A sample of 272 general practitioners in the eastern part of the Netherlands was interviewed. The general practitioners were presented with 10 cases involving confidentiality and were asked what course of action th...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Lako CJ,Huygen FJ,Lindenthal JJ,Persoon JM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been recent campaigns in many countries to address the increasing morbidity and mortality of asthma by promoting better management. This study aimed to evaluate the National Asthma Campaign (NAC), in Australia, and to assess the extent of its impact on reported asthma management. It was a cross-sectional, b...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Tse M,Bridges-Webb C,Bauman A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ethnic minority patients seem to be confronted with barriers when using health services. Yet, care providers are often oblivious to these barriers, although they may share to some extent the burden of responsibility for them. In order to enlighten care providers, as to the potential pitfalls that may exist, ...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： Scheppers E,van Dongen E,Dekker J,Geertzen J,Dekker J

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevention of cardiovascular disease in the elderly is becoming increasingly important. GPs are in a unique position to initiate preventive interventions in this age group. However, it is not clear which strategy a GP should follow to identify patients at increased cardiovascular risk-case finding or screeni...

journal_title：Family practice

authors： van den Berg PJ,van Dalsen CL,de Rooij RA,Prins A,Hoes AW

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00