The association between demographic factors, user reported experiences and user satisfaction: results from three casualty clinics in Norway.

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 aim of this study was to ascertain the degree of awareness and implementation of the Spanish adaptatio...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Brotons C,Lobos JM,Royo-Bordonada MÁ,Maiques A,de Santiago A,Castellanos Á,Diaz S,Obaya JC,Pedro-Botet J,Moral I,Lizarbe V,Moreno R,Pérez A,Cordero A,Fornés-Ubeda F,Serrano-Saiz B,Camafort-Babkowski M,Elosua R,Sans S

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological and sociocultural differences between men and women may play an important role in medical treatment. Little is known about the awareness of these differences among general practitioners (GPs) and if they consider such differences in their medical practice. The aim of this study was to explore GPs'...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Loikas D,Karlsson L,von Euler M,Hallgren K,Schenck-Gustafsson K,Bastholm Rahmner P

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing physical activity is a cornerstone in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and in general practice it is a challenge to achieve long-term adherence to this life style change. The aim of this study was to investigate in a non-randomised design whether the introduction of motivational interviewing combi...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Lohmann H,Siersma V,Olivarius NF

更新日期：2010-11-03 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:When medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) become persistent, it may have major implications for the patient, the general practitioner (GP) and for society.Early identification of patients with MUPS in electronic medical records (EMRs) might contribute to prevention of persistent MUPS by creating aw...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： den Boeft M,van der Wouden JC,Rydell-Lexmond TR,de Wit NJ,van der Horst HE,Numans ME

更新日期：2014-06-05 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:Physicians' interpersonal performance is critical in medical practice, especially primary care practice. The General Practice Assessment Questionnaire (GPAQ) was developed in the United Kingdom to evaluate the quality of primary care from the viewpoint of patients. This questionnaire highlights the evaluatio...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Kijima T,Akai K,Matsushita A,Hamano T,Onoda K,Yano S,Nabika T,Ishibashi Y,Kumakura S

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Families of children with rare diseases (i.e., not more than 5 out of 10,000 people are affected) are often highly burdened with fears, insecurities and concerns regarding the affected child and its siblings. Although families caring for children with rare diseases are known to be at risk for mental disorder...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Boettcher J,Filter B,Denecke J,Hot A,Daubmann A,Zapf A,Wegscheider K,Zeidler J,von der Schulenburg JG,Bullinger M,Rassenhofer M,Schulte-Markwort M,Wiegand-Grefe S

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking rates among the general population in Bosnia and Herzegovina are extremely high, and national campaigns to lower smoking rates have not yet begun. As part of future activities of the Queen's University Family Medicine Development Program in the Balkans Region, technical assistance may be provided to ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Hodgetts G,Broers T,Godwin M

更新日期：2004-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:General Practice Co-Operatives provide most out of hours care in communities in Ireland. Limited data exists on patient complaints. This study reports on complaints at Kildare and West Wicklow Doctors on Call ('K Doc'), a GP Co-Operative in Ireland, examining the impact of a formal risk reduction strategy im...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Barragry RA,Varadkar LE,Hanlon DK,Bailey KF,O'Dowd TC,O'Shea BJ

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are a substantial number of instruments for primary-care clinicians to assess physical-activity (PA). However, there are few studies that have explored the views of clinicians regarding comparative acceptability and ease of use. A better understanding of how clinicians perceive instruments could help o...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Dutton SN,Dennis SM,Zwar N,Harris MF

更新日期：2016-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to proceed from a paper based registration to a surveillance system that is based on extraction of electronic health records (EHR), knowledge is needed on the number and representativeness of sentinel GPs using a government-certified EHR system and the quality of EHR data for research, expressed in ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Boffin N,Bossuyt N,Vanthomme K,Van Casteren V

更新日期：2010-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This work describes the methodology used to assess a strategy for implementing clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for cardiovascular risk control in a health area of Madrid. BACKGROUND:The results on clinical practice of introducing CPGs have been little studied in Spain. The strategy used to implement a CP...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Rodríguez-Salvanés F,Novella B,Fernández Luque MJ,Sánchez-Gómez LM,Ruiz-Díaz L,Sánchez-Alcalde R,Sierra-García B,Mayayo S,Ruiz-López M,Loeches P,López-Gónzález J,González-Gamarra A,SIRVA2 group.

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The way GPs work does not appear to be adapted to the needs of depressive patients. Therefore we wanted to examine Swedish GPs' conceptions of depressive disorders and their treatment and GPs' ideas of factors that may influence their manner of work with depressive patients. METHODS:A postal questionnaire t...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Andersson SJ,Troein M,Lindberg G

更新日期：2005-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is underdiagnosed in the UK and the assessment and diagnosis pathway often involves a general practitioner (GP) referral to secondary care services. GPs' levels of knowledge and understanding about ADHD is often a significant barrier in patients accessing care....

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： French B,Daley D,Perez Vallejos E,Sayal K,Hall CL

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intimate partner violence (IPV) including physical, sexual and emotional violence, causes short and long term ill-health. Brief questions that reliably identify women experiencing IPV who present in clinical settings are a pre-requisite for an appropriate response from health services to this substantial pub...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Sohal H,Eldridge S,Feder G

更新日期：2007-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cooperatives delivering out of hours care in the Netherlands are hesitant about the use of expert systems during triage. Apart from the extra costs, cooperatives are not sure that quality of triage is sufficiently enhanced by these systems and believe that call duration will be prolonged drastically. No figu...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Ong RS,Post J,van Rooij H,de Haan J

更新日期：2008-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the Netherlands, about half of the patient contacts with a general practitioner (GP) cooperative are nonurgent from a medical perspective. A part of these problems can wait until office hours or can be managed by the patient himself without further professional care. However, from the patient's perspectiv...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Keizer E,Smits M,Peters Y,Huibers L,Giesen P,Wensing M

更新日期：2015-10-28 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:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a major public health challenge. General practitioners (GPs) could play a key role in its recognition. However, it often remains undiagnosed in primary care. This study assesses how well GPs and patients recognise MetS among patients with coronary heart disease or at least one of...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Helminen EE,Mäntyselkä P,Nykänen I,Kumpusalo E

更新日期：2009-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variation in prescription of antibiotics in primary care can indicate poor clinical practice that contributes to the increase of resistant strains. General Practitioners (GPs), as a professional group, are expected to have a fairly homogeneous prescribing style. In this paper, we describe variation in prescr...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Cordoba G,Siersma V,Lopez-Valcarcel B,Bjerrum L,Llor C,Aabenhus R,Makela M

更新日期：2015-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a chronic, relapsing gastrointestinal disorder, that affects approximately 10% of the general population and the majority are diagnosed in primary care. IBS has been reported to be associated with altered psychological and cognitive functioning such as mood disturbances, som...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Grodzinsky E,Walter S,Viktorsson L,Carlsson AK,Jones MP,Faresjö Å

更新日期：2015-01-28 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:Disabling fatigue is the main illness related reason for prolonged absence from school. Although there are accepted criteria for diagnosing chronic fatigue in adults, it remains uncertain as to how best to define disabling fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in children and adolescents. In this popula...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Fowler T,Duthie P,Thapar A,Farmer A

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 spontaneously within one week. It is not known how many women are prepared to delay antibiotic treatment. W...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Knottnerus BJ,Geerlings SE,Moll van Charante EP,ter Riet G

更新日期：2013-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is extensive evidence of health inequality across ethnic groups. Inequity is a complex social phenomenon involving several underlying factors, including ethnic discrimination. In the field of health care, it has been established that ethnic discrimination stems partially from bias or prejudice on the p...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Lepièce B,Reynaert C,van Meerbeeck P,Lorant V

更新日期：2014-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is wide variation in the quality of care provided by primary care practices to individuals with chronic illnesses. Individual doctor attitudes and interest have been demonstrated to influence patient outcomes in some instances. Given the trend towards larger practices and part-time working, continuity ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Thapar AK,Roland MO

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comorbid chronic pain and depression is a challenging dyad of conditions to manage in primary care and reporting has shown to vary by ethnic group. Whether the relationship between depression and chronic pain varies by ethnicity is unclear. This study aims to explore chronic pain and depression reporting acr...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Nicholl BI,Smith DJ,Cullen B,Mackay D,Evans J,Anderson J,Lyall DM,Fawns-Ritchie C,McIntosh AM,Deary IJ,Pell JP,Mair FS

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 hours, a higher number of patients and a lower income than working in urban areas. These perceptions ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Steinhaeuser J,Joos S,Szecsenyi J,Miksch A

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chest complaints presented to a general practitioner (GP) are frequently caused by diseases which have advantageous outcomes. However, in some cases, acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is present (1.5-22% of cases). The patient's signs, symptoms and electrocardiography results are insufficient diagnostic tools to...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Willemsen RT,Buntinx F,Winkens B,Glatz JF,Dinant GJ,‘RAPIDA’-study team.

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00