Development of a family physician impact assessment tool in the district health system of the Western Cape Province, South Africa.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last two decades, ultrasonography (US) has been shown to be an accurate tool for the diagnosis of suspected bone fractures; however, the integration of this application of US into routine care and outpatient settings needs to be explored. In this study, we surveyed German general practitioners (GPs)...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Schmid GL,Kühnast B,Heise M,Deutsch T,Frese T

更新日期：2020-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The definition of primary care varies between countries. Swedish primary care has developed from a philosophic viewpoint based on quality, accessibility, continuity, co-operation and a holistic view. The meaning of holism in international literature differs between medicine and nursing. The question is, if t...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Strandberg EL,Ovhed I,Borgquist L,Wilhelmsson S

更新日期：2007-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Throat pain is a common complaint in the ambulatory setting. Diagnosis of group A Streptococcus is made with a culture, molecular test or a rapid antigen detection test from the tonsils or the posterior pharyngeal wall, while other areas of the oral cavity are considered unacceptable. The purpose of the stud...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Adler L,Parizade M,Koren G,Yehoshua I

更新日期：2020-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study is in a general practice trial setting to identify predictive factors for weight loss after 1 year among young adults who are over-weight or obese and who have several psychosocial problems. METHODS:Twenty-eight general practitioners recruited 495 patients aged 20-45 years with psychos...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Lous J,Freund KS

更新日期：2016-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is common to find a high variability in the accuracy of heart failure (HF) diagnosis in electronic primary care medical records (EMR). Our aims were to ascertain (i) whether the prognosis of HF labelled patients whose ejection fraction (EF) was missing in their EMR differed from those that had it register...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Muñoz MA,Mundet-Tuduri X,Real J,Del Val JL,Domingo M,Vinyoles E,Calero E,Checa C,Soldevila-Bacardit N,Verdú-Rotellar JM

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Malta, sickness certificates are needed from the first day of illness, and are issued by family physicians (FPs) either employed by the government primary health care system, self-employed in private practice, or employed by an employer for this purpose alone. The latter system, when applied by the employ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Soler JK

更新日期：2003-03-27 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: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: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:Despite evidence supporting the effectiveness of alcohol screening and brief advice to reduce heavy drinking, implementation in primary healthcare remains limited. The challenges that clinicians experience when delivering such interventions are well-known, but we have little understanding of the patient pers...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： O'Donnell A,Hanratty B,Schulte B,Kaner E

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The general practitioner (GP) can play an important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle, which is especially relevant in people with an elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases due to hypertension. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the frequency and content of lifestyle counseling about wei...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Milder IE,Blokstra A,de Groot J,van Dulmen S,Bemelmans WJ

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The protection and promotion of breastfeeding is considered a priority in Europe where only 22% of infants less than 6 months old are exclusively breastfed. In Spain this percentage reaches 24.8% but in our city it falls to 18.26%. Various studies emphasise that the improvement of these results should be bas...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Martín-Iglesias S,del-Cura-González I,Sanz-Cuesta T,Arana-Cañedo Argüelles C,Rumayor-Zarzuelo M,Alvarez-de la Riva M,Lloret-Sáez Bravo AM,Férnandez-Arroyo RM,Aréjula-Torres JL,Aguado-Arroyo Ó,Góngora-Maldonado F,García-Corraliza M

更新日期：2011-12-30 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:Since Huntington's Disease (HD) is a familial disease with an average onset in the mid-thirties, one might expect that spousal carers are concerned with providing care for off-spring who may turn out to be affected. METHODS:This study involved ten face-to-face interviews with carers of spouses affected by H...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Lowit A,van Teijlingen ER

更新日期：2005-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Policy efforts focus on a reorientation of health care systems towards primary prevention. To guide such efforts, we analyzed the role of primary prevention in general practice and general practitioners' (GPs) attitudes toward primary prevention. METHODS:Mixed-method study including a cross-sectional survey...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Holmberg C,Sarganas G,Mittring N,Braun V,Dini L,Heintze C,Rieckmann N,Muckelbauer R,Müller-Nordhorn J

更新日期：2014-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hallingdal is a rural region in southern Norway. General practitioners (GPs) refer acutely somatically ill patients to any of three levels of care: municipal nursing homes, the regional community hospital or the local general hospital. The objective of this paper is to describe the patterns of referrals to t...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Lappegard O,Hjortdahl P

更新日期：2013-06-22 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:Primary care physicians struggle to treat chronic noncancer pain while limiting opioid misuse, abuse, and diversion. The objective of this study was to understand how primary care physicians perceive their decisions to prescribe opioids in the context of chronic noncancer pain management. This question is im...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Harle CA,Bauer SE,Hoang HQ,Cook RL,Hurley RW,Fillingim RB

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary care, and its transformation into Primary Health Care (PHC), has become an area of intense policy interest around the world. As part of this trend Alberta, Canada, has implemented Primary Care Networks (PCNs). These are decentralized organizations, mandated with supporting the delivery of PHC, funded...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Leslie M,Khayatzadeh-Mahani A,Birdsell J,Forest PG,Henderson R,Gray RP,Schraeder K,Seidel J,Zwicker J,Green LA

更新日期：2020-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) results vary by analytical method. Use of same-visit HbA1c testing methodology holds the promise of more efficient patient care, and improved diabetes management. Our objective was to test the feasibility of introducing a same-visit HbA1c methodology into busy family practice cent...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Schwartz KL,Monsur JC,Bartoces MG,West PA,Neale AV

更新日期：2005-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People use a variety of means to find health information, including searching the Internet, seeking print sources, and talking to healthcare providers, family members, and friends. Doctors are considered the most trusted source of health information, but people may be underutilizing them in favor of searchin...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Swoboda CM,Van Hulle JM,McAlearney AS,Huerta TR

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The German clinical guideline on tobacco addiction recommends that general practitioners (GPs) provide brief stop-smoking advice to their patients according to the "5A" or the much briefer "ABC" method, but its implementation is insufficient. A lack of training is one barrier for GPs to provide such advice. ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Kastaun S,Leve V,Hildebrandt J,Funke C,Becker S,Lubisch D,Viechtbauer W,Reddemann O,Hempel L,McRobbie H,Raupach T,West R,Kotz D

更新日期：2019-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As obesity is rapidly becoming a major medical and public health problem, the aim of our study was to determine: 1) if obesity in Caucasian adolescents at 5 different Tanner stages are associated with obesity in adulthood and its obesity-associated abnormal glucose and lipid profiles, 2) the type of fat dist...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Plourde G

更新日期：2002-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study is to perform an independent evaluation of the feasibility and effectiveness of an educational programme for the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes (DM2) in high risk populations in primary care settings, implanted within the Basque Health Service - Osakidetza. METHODS/DESIGN:...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Sanchez A,Silvestre C,Sauto R,Martínez C,Grandes G,PreDE research group.

更新日期：2012-11-16 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:The QUALICOPC (Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe) study aims to evaluate the performance of primary care systems in Europe in terms of quality, equity and costs. The study will provide an answer to the question what strong primary care systems entail and which effects primary care systems have on t...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Schäfer WL,Boerma WG,Kringos DS,De Maeseneer J,Gress S,Heinemann S,Rotar-Pavlic D,Seghieri C,Svab I,Van den Berg MJ,Vainieri M,Westert GP,Willems S,Groenewegen PP

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients vary widely when making decisions to consult primary care. Some present frequently with trivial illness: others delay with serious disease. Differences in health service provision may play a part in this. We aimed to explore whether and how patients' consulting intentions take account of their perce...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Campbell NC,Iversen L,Farmer J,Guest C,MacDonald J

更新日期：2006-04-26 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:Long-term needs of stroke survivors are often not adequately addressed and many patients are dissatisfied with care post-discharge from hospital. Primary care could play an important role in identifying need in people with stroke. AIM:We aimed to explore, refine and test the feasibility and acceptability of...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Turner GM,Mullis R,Lim L,Kreit L,Mant J

更新日期：2019-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevalence of insomnia symptoms in the general population is high. Insomnia is linked with high health care use and within primary care there are a number of treatment options available. The objective of this study was to determine the association of persistence and remission of insomnia with primary health ...

journal_title：BMC family practice

authors： Hayward RA,Jordan KP,Croft P

更新日期：2012-02-16 00:00:00