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Section edited by Carolyn Chew-Graham and Chris Burton
This section covers, though is not limited to, education in general practice, health literacy and communication skills, eHealth and medical record systems, patient reported outcomes and quality indicators, and patient-physician relations, within the context of primary care.
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Effective management of people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) requires development of new models of care, and successful implementation relies on engagement of general practitioners (GPs). This study used a qua...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:85
Published on: 7 September 2017
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Diagnostic uncertainty is one of the largest contributory factors to the occurrence of diagnostic errors across most specialties in medicine and arguably uncertainty is greatest in primary care due to the undi...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:79
Published on: 7 August 2017
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Blood transfusion in chronic anemia is not covered by guidelines specific to older adults. When they consider that this treatment is necessary in elderly patients, French general practitioners (GPs) contact a ...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:76
Published on: 11 July 2017
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Depression is more prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF) than in those without, but its detection is complicated by the symptom overlap between the two diseases. General practitioners (GPs) are the fir...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:71
Published on: 9 June 2017
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The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is now widely used in clinical encounters. Because its use can negatively impact the physician-patient relationship, several recommendations on the “patient-centered” use of ...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:69
Published on: 26 May 2017
Research article
Rising dementia prevalence rates rise combined with the policy objective of enabling people with dementia to remain living at home, means that there will be a growing demand for dementia care in the community ...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:66
Published on: 22 May 2017
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Good physician-patient communication can favor the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits, which is essential in high blood pressure (BP) management. More empathic physicians tend to have lower burnout and bette...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:63
Published on: 12 May 2017
Research article
Our aim was to investigate patterns of health care resource use by patients before and after a diagnosis of CFS/ME, as recorded by Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GP practices in the UK.
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:60
Published on: 5 May 2017
Research article
Primary health-care professionals play an important role in the treatment and prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). Continuing Medical Education (CME)-courses can influence the knowledge and beh...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:57
Published on: 24 April 2017
Research article
Medical certificates influence the distribution of economic benefits in welfare states; however, the qualitative aspects of these texts remain largely unexplored. The present study is the first systematic inve...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:55
Published on: 20 April 2017
Research article
Physicians’ clinical decision-making may be influenced by non‐analytical thinking, especially when perceiving uncertainty. Incidental gut feelings in general practice have been described, namely, as “a sense o...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:54
Published on: 20 April 2017
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Much research worldwide is focussed on cost containment and better adherence to guidelines in healthcare. The research focussing on professional behaviour is often performed in a well-controlled research setti...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:53
Published on: 13 April 2017
Research article
Swiss primary care (PC) is facing workforce shortage. Up to 2011 this workforce was supplied by two board certifications: general medicine and internal medicine. To strengthen them against subspecialties, they...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:52
Published on: 5 April 2017
Research article
Early diagnosis and treatment of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) can prevent future health problems, yet many individuals with these conditions are undiagnosed. This could be due, in part, to p...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:50
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Current literature describes the limits and pitfalls of using opioid pharmacotherapy for chronic pain and the importance of identifying alternatives. The objective of this study was to identify the practical i...
BMC Family Practice 2017 17:164
Published on: 24 March 2017
Research article
Exercise is an important component of a healthy lifestyle, the development of which is a relapse prevention strategy for those with alcohol use disorder. However, it is a challenge to create exercise intervent...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:45
Published on: 23 March 2017
Research article
Chlamydia trachomatis (chlamydia) is the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection (STI) in England; approximately 70% of diagnoses are in sexually active young adults age...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:43
Published on: 21 March 2017
Research article
Detection of cancer in general practice is challenging because symptoms are diverse. Even so-called alarm symptoms have low positive predictive values of cancer. Nevertheless, appropriate referral is crucial. ...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:44
Published on: 21 March 2017
Research article
There is a growing emphasis on self-monitoring applications that allow patients to measure their own physical health parameters. A prerequisite for achieving positive effects is patients’ willingness to self-m...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:40
Published on: 20 March 2017
Research article
Support for self-management (SSM) is a prominent strand of health policy internationally, particularly for primary care. It is often discussed and evaluated in terms of patients’ knowledge, skills and confiden...
BMC Family Practice 2017 18:39
Published on: 20 March 2017
