Patterns of abuse of the elderly in their own homes as reported by district nurses.

abstract：:In an out-patient clinic for specialised medical care, 30 patients were questioned about their worries prior to the visit. The purpose of the study was to obtain basic knowledge about emotional experiences of patients visiting a doctor. The theoretical viewpoint was that of social interaction and social construction o...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Andersson-Segesten K,Erichsen M,Westerlund A,Ojerskog I

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse associations between symptoms and bacteriuria in uncomplicated lower urinary tract infection in women (LUTIW) and to evaluate outcome of therapy with three different regimens of pivmecillinam or placebo. DESIGN:Prospective, multicentre, randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled therapy stud...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Ferry SA,Holm SE,Stenlund H,Lundholm R,Monsen TJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates the feasibility of the clinical differentiation between patients with beta-haemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis from those with pharyngitis caused by other agents, based on the patients' symptoms, symptom duration, and the clinical findings. Twenty-four general practitioners recruited 22...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Hjortdahl P,Laerum E,Mowinckel P

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evaluate the feasibility of the COPD Web and its study design and study procedures and to increase the understanding of the potential effect of the tool in order to provide guidance for a future large scale trial. DESIGN:Parallel-group controlled pragmatic pilot trial. SUBJECTS:There was a total of 83 patie...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Nyberg A,Tistad M,Wadell K

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health problems in female patients often confuse the general practitioner. Many of them are classified as "unspecific" or "various". Psychiatric, psychosomatic or musculosceletal diagnoses may imply a diagnostic level inadequate for proper solution of the problems. This study of middle-aged female patients assumes tha...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Malterud K

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: It is generally expected that the growth of the older population will lead to an increase in the use of health care services. The aim was to examine the changes in the number of visits made to general practitioners (GP) by the older age groups, and whether such changes were associated with changes in mortal...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Mustonen K,Kauppila T,Rahkonen O,Kantonen J,Raina M,Mäki T,Pitkälä K

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:How do physician visits vary when GPs are given the opportunity to send their patients to private specialists for consultation rather than simply to hospital outpatient clinics. DESIGN:An experimental study. SETTING AND SUBJECTS:In the City of Turku, 3 populations were served over 34 months by different ser...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Linnala A,Aromaa A,Mattila K

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore patients' views about what they would or would not like to read on the computer screen, and how this might be managed. DESIGN:A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with patients who had recently consulted, and who were representative of the age-sex structure of our practice populati...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Ridsdale L,Hudd S

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Investigating the state of generalism in medicine from the outlook of general practice. Line of argument: General practice developed when its pioneers, in continuing relationships, learnt to know their patients through the variety of medical situations. From the 50s, there is an increasing literature on the...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Rudebeck CE

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between serum total cholesterol and all-cause mortality in elderly individuals aged > or = 75 years. Design. A prospective cohort study with a six-year follow-up. SETTING AND SUBJECTS:A random sample (n = 700) of all persons aged > or = 75 years living in Kuopio, Finland. After...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Tuikkala P,Hartikainen S,Korhonen MJ,Lavikainen P,Kettunen R,Sulkava R,Enlund H

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study which focused on the 169 approved certificates for patients applying for the right for "free" medication in a sickness insurance district during one year in Finland shows two interesting findings. These, cannot of course be generalized because of the low number of observations and of doctors involved (total...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Kekki P

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to describe patients' experience of yoga as a treatment for hypertension, as well as their experience of living with hypertension. DESIGN:Qualitative interview study Method and materials: In 2013-2014, in southern Sweden, patients with hypertension from three health care centres were...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Wolff M,Brorsson A,Midlöv P,Sundquist K,Strandberg EL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect on referral rate when GPs are given a better opportunity to send their patients to specialists for consultation. DESIGN:Intervention study with a control group. SETTING AND SUBJECTS:A 34-month experiment in the City of Turku. The experimental group consisted of 10 GPs working in municip...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Linnala A,Aromaa A,Mattila K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the prevalence of headache and its association with lifestyle among schoolchildren and to test an intervention programme. DESIGN:A cross-sectional survey of all pupils in the school who were asked to complete a questionnaire about headache and lifestyle factors. SETTING:School health care at ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Leonardsson-Hellgren M,Gustavsson UM,Lindblad U

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To compare information in sickness certificates and rehabilitation activities for patients with symptom diagnoses vs patients with disease specific diagnoses. Design: Retrospective case control study 2013-2014. Setting: Primary health care, Sweden. Subjects. Patients with new onset sickness certificates wit...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Starzmann K,Hjerpe P,Boström KB

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective was to study primary healthcare patients' understanding of their diagnosis of heart failure (HF), using patients treated for diabetes mellitus (DM) as a comparative group. DESIGN:A cross-sectional community based study. SETTING:Karlskrona community situated on the Swedish south-east coast with...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Halling A,Berglund J

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine which treatment strategy offers the most cost-effective option in managing acute sinusitis. DESIGN:The modelling procedure included five clinical strategies, varying from "wait and see for a week", to "prescribing antibiotics selectively" to "prescribing antibiotics immediately" and to "performi...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： de Bock GH,van Erkel AR,Springer MP,Kievit J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse how psychosocial and social factors are associated with heavy smoking in the third trimester of pregnancy. DESIGN:Data were collected from a prospective study primarily initiated to study fetal growth retardation. (NICHD Study of successive small for gestational age births). SETTING:Uppsala in Sw...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Thue E,Schei B,Jacobsen G

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the diagnostic process of general practitioners confronted with ill-defined and ambiguous complaints, which eventually appeared to be caused by a malignancy. Three aspects were rated: (a) the adequacy of the initial problem definition; (b) the carefulness of further diagnostic methods; and (c) how ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Kuyvenhoven MM,Spreeuwenberg C,Touw-Otten FW

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the prevalence of adverse reactions to food and food allergy in Icelandic and Swedish 18-month-old children. DESIGN:Prospective multicentre comparative study. SETTING:Primary health care centres in Sweden and Iceland. SUBJECTS:A total of 324 children in Iceland and 328 in Sweden who attended...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Kristjansson I,Ardal B,Jonsson JS,Sigurdsson JA,Foldevi M,Björkstén B

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This paper investigated patients' experiences of disease and self-care as well as perceptions of the general practitioner's role in supporting patients with impaired self-care ability. DESIGN:Qualitative interviews with 13 patients with type 2 diabetes, concurrent chronic diseases, and impaired self-care abi...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Kristensen MAT,Guassora AD,Arreskov AB,Waldorff FB,Hølge-Hazelton B

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study investigated general practitioners' responses to three scenarios in which patients consulted regarding genetic conditions. DESIGN:Self-completed postal study. Setting. Primary care in Northern Ireland. SUBJECTS:Questionnaire were distributed to all the GPs in Northern Ireland (n = 1079). A total ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： McCann S,MacAuley D,Barnett Y

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assessed well-being has been shown to be related to earlier medical events and to be a predictor of mortality. 50-year-old men and women (n = 314) in Kungsör were invited to an examination for traditional risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and different aspects of self-assessed well-being. The differences b...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Thorell B,Svärdsudd K

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the distribution of prenatal and postnatal risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). DESIGN:A questionnaire-based survey for SIDS risk factors; family interviews were performed among the parents of SIDS victims and symptom-free infants. SETTING:The survey was conducted in paediatric pri...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Töro K,Sótonyi P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To find a method for quality assessment in primary health care and to apply this method on a defined disease. DESIGN:General practitioners and hospital doctors worked out a programme for evaluating the quality of outpatient care of patients with insulin treated diabetes as one of five tracers. An expert comm...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Lindström K,Berg L,Rylander B,Hagman A,Olsson L,Bengtsson C

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Explore the perceptions of patients and health care professionals about patients' ideas, concerns, expectations (ICE), and satisfaction in consultations with general practitioners (GPs), district nurses (DNs) and physiotherapists (PTs).Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire study of participants in planned c...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Freilich J,Wiking E,Nilsson GH,Olsson C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the psychosocial consequences of receiving false-positive colorectal cancer (CRC) screening results, following a positive immunochemical faecal occult blood test. Design, setting, and subjects: We conducted a qualitative study with four semi-structured focus gr...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Toft EL,Kaae SE,Malmqvist J,Brodersen J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the effects of applying an emergency department (ED) triage system, combined with extensive publicity in local media about the "right" use of emergency services, on the division of work between ED nurses and general practitioners (GPs). DESIGN:An observational and quasi-experimental study based on b...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Kantonen J,Lloyd R,Mattila J,Kauppila T,Menezes R

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the occurrence of "health realists", "health pessimists" and "health optimists" in a non-patient population by identifying cases of concordance and discordance between doctor-evaluated health and self-evaluated health and to describe the distribution of selected life-style-related physiological ri...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Geest TA,Engberg M,Lauritzen T

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sputum colour plays an important role in the disease concepts for acute cough, both in the patients' and the doctors' view. However, it is unclear whether the sputum colour can be used for diagnosis of a bacterial infection. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. SETTING:A total of 42 GP practices in Dusseldorf, Ger...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Altiner A,Wilm S,Däubener W,Bormann C,Pentzek M,Abholz HH,Scherer M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00