abstract：:A prospective evaluation was made of an algorithm for a selective use of throat swabs in patients with sore throat in general practice. The algorithm states that a throat swab should be obtained (a) in all children younger than 15 years; (b) in patients aged 15 years or more who have pain on swallowing and at least th...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Hoffmann S

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten study populations sampled from a total of 86 communities in a rural Ethiopian area, have been registered and followed for a period of four years. A baseline census revealed a median age of 15 years, a literacy rate of 24%, poor housing and environmental conditions, and low utilization of the existing health care f...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Shamebo D,Sandström A,Wall S

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between morbidity in early childhood and gender, birth order, and social class. DESIGN:The study used data collected in the Nijmegen Continuous Morbidity Registration. All presented morbidity and a number of personal data were available. SETTING...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： van den Bosch WJ,Huygen FJ,van den Hoogen HJ,van Weel C

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper first explores what Health for All (HFA) means as a policy goal. It calls for major changes in health care. In the European Region of WHO, 38 targets show how approaches to health problems, lifestyles, environment, health care and support measures (e.g., planning, management and training) should be changed ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Vuori H

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to describe and evaluate a controlled intervention to achieve more rational and economical drug therapy in general practice. The strategy was based on peer comparison feedback and encouragement of local peer group discussions. Seven districts comprising 53, and 6 districts comprising 55 eligib...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Lassen LC,Kristensen FB

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study describes health, social situation, and contact with general practitioners in a random sample of non-institutionalized persons 70-95 years old in Denmark. There was a strong correlation between health and contact with general practitioners. A small group, 3% of the respondents, had no health problems, but ha...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Almind G,Holstein BE,Holst E,Due P

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mortality from ischaemic heart disease is higher in predominantly rural northern and western Sweden than in the more urban eastern and southern districts. This study was performed in a small semirural area in mid-Sweden with lower mortality from ischaemic heart disease in middle-aged men and higher mortality in mi...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Thorell B,Svärdsudd K

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance was evaluated in 807 middle-aged subjects at a health survey, with use of an index measured in 75 g oral glucose tolerance tests. The mean value of insulin resistance was higher in a hypertensive group than among the normotensives, independent of body mass index, physical activity, smoking sex, age,...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Cederholm J,Wibell L

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and fifty women who brought a home-voided urine sample to a general practitioner were asked at the same consultation to provide another sample under controlled conditions. Seventy-three women had lower urinary tract symptoms and 77 were asymptomatic. The two samples were analysed for pyuria (greater than o...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Baerheim A,Laerum E

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：:The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficiency of different strategies of intervention to reduce prescription of hypnotics/sedatives in general practice. All 356 general practitioners in the county of Aarhus, Denmark, were divided in three groups. One group received personal information at meetings, another recei...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Holm M

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients and general practitioners in northern Norway were asked their opinion on the doctors' use of a white coat in the consultation. 51.9% of the patients wanted their doctor not to wear a white coat, whereas 11.7% of the doctors never wore one. 5.7% of the doctors' staff members never wore a white coat. The patien...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Anvik T

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical work load was assessed by doctors and patients to have contributed to the health problems leading to sickness certification in 48.4% of 1413 patients certified sick by 118 general practitioners in Buskerud county, Norway (1986). Correspondingly, psychological factors were considered contributory in 32.1%. The...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Tellnes G,Bruusgaard D,Sandvik L

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical set-up in primary health care, with a specially trained nurse, a dietician, and a chiropodist under the supervision of general practitioners and giving patient education high priority, is evaluated after ten years in practice. Of the 391 patients cared for, 352 had non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus,...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Falkenberg M

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 235 persons (180 adults and 55 children 0-15 years old) recorded symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection daily during two three-month periods (autumn 1986 and spring 1987). Samples for culture were taken from the nasopharynx and throat once during each period. Fifteen per cent of asymptomatic subjects...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Schwan A,Eriksson M,Eriksson BM,Carlson U,Petterson E,Sandblom M,Tibblin G

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Longitudinal analyses of heavy users of prescription drugs were carried out in a geographically defined population in mideastern Sweden. During the period 1976-1983 the individual stability in heavy use of prescription drugs was analysed in heavy users identified in 1975. Mortality of heavy and nonheavy users during t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Isacson D,Haglund B

更新日期：1989-10-01 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：: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：:The present study describes the use of phenoxymethylpenicillin and broad-spectrum penicillin for the treatment of sinusitis in general practice, in relation to some variables related to the prescribing doctors: region (county), practice form (single-handed or partnership), and the doctors' seniority (year of graduatio...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Bro F,Mabeck CE

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-three percent of all problems and complaints reported by patients aged 21 and older to their family physician dealt with somatic disorders, and only 7% with psychosocial problems. Psychological complaints were evenly distributed among major age groups, and between male and female patients. "Social problems" pea...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Van Zutphen W,Saenger G,Hendrix J

更新日期：1988-05-01 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：:In a multipractice prevalence study of uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI) in primary health care (PHC), with 355 episodes in 302 individuals during one month, 93% of the episodes occurred in females and Escherichia coli was the dominating causative organism (77%). Most episodes of UTI (84%) were acute and ass...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Ferry S,Burman LG,Mattsson B

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Descriptions of twenty different clinical situations, most of which included cancer related symptoms and signs, were assessed by 329 patients. The patients showed a satisfactory level of alertness in response to the clinical situations. Lumps and bumps and visible bleeding gave the quickest response. An inverse relati...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Nylenna M,Hjortdahl P

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire was sent in 1984 to 97 children with urticaria, who had previously been seen in Danish general practice during a period of three months in 1982. The questionnaire included questions about provoking factors and the course of the disease. Replies were received from 79 children, 46 of whom had experienced...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Sørensen HT,Christensen B,Kjaerulff E

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study carried out among 269 mother-infant pairs in Istanbul showed that the majority of infants began receiving regular complements or had been weaned before the age of three months. A prospective study carried out among 24 mothers beginning the last month of pregnancy and continuing until the time w...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Kocturk TO

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demonstration of significant bacteriuria by quantitative culture of a urine specimen by use of dip-slides is a well proved diagnostic procedure in general practice. Susceptibility testing from urine specimens by use of dip-slides or agar-plates seems likewise easy to perform in general practice, but commercial methods...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Kjaerulff E

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshly prepared quality control materials of different kinds were distributed by cars to all the public health centers, sanatoria and mother and child stations in Oslo. The recipients, who were unaware of the correct values, analysed each sample once without delay and reported the results back to our laboratory. A la...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Landaas S,Juell A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Swedish trial in old patients with hypertension was initiated by the Swedish League against Hypertension. It will be conducted as a prospective multicentre study in Swedish primary health care, and will comprise approximately 2 000 patients on active treatment and 2 000 on placebo to be studied for three years. Th...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Dahlöf B,Hansson L,Lindholm L,Råstam L,Scherstén B,Wester PO

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present investigation was to describe dental health behaviour in an adult Danish population and to study whether oral hygiene habits and consumption of sweets were affected by living conditions. The study group comprised 749 persons in the age group 25-44 years (82% of the original sample) and data ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Petersen PE

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The school health records of 302 persons from the village of Röros, Norway, were scrutinized concerning the notes made by the author when performing a routine school health examination of all the subjects, then aged 16, in the years 1970-73. The notes concerning assessment of posture, findings on muscle palpation, sub...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Hertzberg A

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A written inquiry was undertaken to explore the expectations towards primary care physicians (general practitioners), as expressed by patients, local health board members and health centre staff members. Treatment without delay was given top priority both by patients and board members, while continuity of care was con...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Hagman E,Rehnström T

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Regional Health University is planned at the University of Linköping, Sweden. To evaluate new educational principles, a trial project was carried out in which medical and nursing students trained together in a two-week full-time course aimed at patient-oriented clinical social medicine and epidemiological field work...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Bergman-Larsson K,Foldevi M,Gregersen NP,Hartvig B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During one year, 1979-80, all the contacts between the 836 inhabitants of Upernavik town and the local medical officers were recorded. In the 737 native Greenlanders 1006 contacts (41%) were caused by infectious diseases, representing 705 episodes of disease. The number of contacts per episode of disease was similar i...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Bjerregaard P

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report a review is given on research and development work in primary health care (PHC) in Sweden. PHC has by tradition been very weak in Sweden. As a result of the new Health Care Act of 1983, however, PHC has entered an era of rapid development. A brief historical description of primary health care research a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Haglund BJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:In Iceland a problem oriented medical record system for primary health care has been developed. A contact-form is used to record data on all contacts between the inhabitants in a district and the health center. A minicomputer is used for retrieval and analysis. One rural health center using this system has been succes...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Sigurdsson G,Einarsson I,Josafatsson JI,Magnusson G,Olafsson O,Sigvaldason H,Thorarinsson S,Tulinius H

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the thesis is advanced that the general practitioners can either be a powerful ally or a major roadblock in the development of primary health care in the spirit of the Alma-Ata Declaration. The role they will play depends on their interpretation of, and attitudes towards, the concept. In the first part o...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Vuori H

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general practitioners dealing with cancer has other parameters than statistics of incidence and prevalence. In 400 consecutive interviews with patients in general practice when asked if the consultation was brought about because of fear or thoughts of cancer, eight % answered "yes" and 11% "partly". When asked if ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Nylenna M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some general ideas of the evaluation of the work of the physician applicable also to primary care physicians are taken up in this article. The presentation is not trying to be a complete review of the topic. It tries, however, to direct attention to the importance of the subject from the point of view of the practisin...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of primary health care

authors： Kekki P

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00