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About half of all newly presented episodes of shoulder complaints (SC) in general practice are reported to last for at least six months. Early interventions aimed at the psychological and social determinants o...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2005 6:7
The high rate of antibiotic prescriptions general practitioners (GPs) make for respiratory tract infections (RTI) are often explained by non-medical reasons e.g. an effort to meet patient expectations. Additio...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2005 6:6
Obesity is the most common health problem in developed countries. Recently, several physicians' organizations have issued recommendations for treating obesity to family physicians, including instructions in nu...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2005 6:5
Diagnosing chronic heart failure is difficult, especially in mild cases or early in the course of the disease, and guidelines are not easily implemented in everyday practice. The aim of this study was to inves...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2005 6:4
It is now common for parents to measure tympanic temperatures in children. The objective of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of these measurements.
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2005 6:3
Dizziness is a common complaint among the elderly with a prevalence of over 30% in people over the age of 65. Although it is a common problem the assessment and management of dizziness in the elderly is challe...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2005 6:2
During the 1990s, health care restructuring in Nova Scotia resulted in downsized hospitals, reduced inpatient length of stay, capped physician incomes and restricted practice locations. Concurrently, the provi...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2005 6:1
Research in General Practice requires the participation of General practitioners (GPs). In Germany there is little tradition of research in this field, and GPs are not used to be participants in research. Litt...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:31
Identification and treatment of unrecognised asthmatics in the community is important for improving the health of the individual and minimising cost and quality of life burden. It is not practical to offer cli...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:30
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived walkability and overall self-rated health among patients who use community-based clinics.
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:29
Antibiotic overuse and misuse for upper respiratory tract infections in children is widespread and fuelled by public attitudes and expectations. This study assessed knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding ...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:28
Early identification of permanent hearing impairment in children enables appropriate intervention which reduces adverse developmental outcomes. The UK Government has introduced a universal hearing screening pr...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:27
Diabetes requires significant alterations to lifestyle and completion of self management tasks to obtain good control of disease. The objective of this study was to determine if patient trust is associated wit...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:26
Family physicians (FPs) play an important role in cancer control. While FPs' attitudes towards, and use of guidelines in general have been explored, no study has looked at the needs of FPs with respect to guid...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:25
Family doctors should care for individuals in the context of their family. Family has a powerful influence on health and illness and family interventions have been shown to improve health outcomes for a variet...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:24
Symptomatic hypogammaglobulinemia in infancy and childhood (SHIC), may be an early manifestation of a primary immunodeficiency or a maturational delay in the normal production of immunoglobulins (Ig). We aimed...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:23
Irritable bowel syndrome is a common condition in general practice. It occurs in 10 to 20% of the population, but less than half seek medical assistance with the complaint.
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:22
Chronic meningitis is defined as symptoms and signs of meningeal inflammation and persisting cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities such as elevated protein level and pleocytosis for at least one month.
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:21
The epidemiology of obesity in primary care populations has not been thoroughly explored. This study contributes to filling this gap by investigating the relationship between obesity and different sources of p...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:20
A primary goal of acute treatment for depression is clinical remission of symptoms. Most meta-analyses of remission rates involve randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using patients from psychiatric settings, b...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:19
This study describes the influence of educational level on bone mineral density (BMD) and investigating the relationship between educational level and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women.
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:18
Understanding the factors that affect patients' utilisation of health services is important for health service provision and effective patient management. This study aimed to investigate the specific morbidity...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:17
The visit to the emergency department (ED) constitutes a brief, yet an important point in the continuum of medical care. The aim of our study was to evaluate the continuity of care of adult ED visitors.
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:16
Despite the well-documented benefits of using warfarin to prevent stroke, physicians remain reluctant to initiate therapy, and especially so with the elderly owing to the higher risk of hemorrhage. Prior resea...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:15
The literature demonstrates that medical residents and practicing physicians have an attitudinal-behavioral discordance concerning their positive attitudes towards clinical practice guidelines (CPG), and the i...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:14
Though urinary incontinence (UI) is a bothersome condition for the individual patient, the patients tend not to inform their physician about UI and the physician tend not to ask the patient. Recently different...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:13
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...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:12
The independent effects of stress on the health of primary care patients might be different for different types of clinic populations. This study examines these relationships in a low-income female population ...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:11
A previous systematic review reported that topical NSAIDs were effective in relieving pain in acute conditions like sprains and strains, with differences between individual drugs for efficacy. More trials, a b...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:10
Heroin is a synthetic opioid with an extensive illicit market leading to large numbers of people becoming addicted. Heroin users often present to community treatment services requesting detoxification and in t...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:9
Influenza vaccination policy for elderly people in Britain has changed twice since 1997 to increase protection against influenza but there is no information available on how this has affected vaccine uptake, a...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:8
Clinical studies for testing new drugs against hepatitis B ought to be carried out in low prevalence areas despite difficulties on patient recruitment. In such areas, relatives of chronic hepatitis B patients ...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:7
Ischaemic heart disease and congestive heart failure are common and important conditions in family practice. Effective treatments may be underutilized, particularly in women and the elderly. The objective of t...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:6
Complementary and alternative medicines are used by many consumers, and increasingly are being incorporated into the general practitioner's armamentarium. Despite widespread usage, the evidence base for most c...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:5
The presence of clinical signs have implications for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the inter-observer agreement of clinical signs in pre-school children pr...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:4
Recent Swedish and joint European guidelines on hyperlipidaemia stress the high coronary risk for patients with already established arterio-sclerotic disease (secondary prevention) or diabetes. For the remaini...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:3
Primary care reform initiatives in Ontario are proceeding with little information about the views of practicing family physicians.
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:2
A number of previous studies have suggested that the Japanese have few opportunities to participate in medical decision-making, as a result both of entrenched physician paternalism and national characteristics...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2004 5:1
Upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) are common. The etiologic factor is usually viral, but many physicians prescribe antibiotics. We aimed to evaluate parents' expectations of and knowledge about the rol...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:20
Whether newer antihypertensive drugs, such as calcium channel blockers, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and α blockers are more effective than thiazides and β blockers in preventing coronary disease, ...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:19
Statins alter lipid concentrations. This systematic review determined the efficacy of particular statins, in terms of their ability to alter cholesterol.
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:18
Although sleep disorders are common, they frequently remain unnoticed by the general practitioner. Few data are available about the willingness and reasons of patients with sleep disturbances to seek for medic...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:17
The quality of diabetes care provided to older adults has usually been judged to be poor, but few data provide direct comparison to other age groups. In this study, we hypothesized that adults age 65 and over ...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:16
The use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in the diagnosis and management of hypertension in primary care settings in the United States is increasing. Insufficient information is available describ...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:15
The General Practice Research Database (GPRD) and Doctor's Independent Network Database (DIN), are large electronic primary care databases compiled in the UK during the 1990s. They provide a valuable resource ...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:14
Evidence-based medicine is gaining prominence in primary care. This study sought to examine the relationships among family physicians' attitudes toward EBM, contextual factors, and clinical decision-making and...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:13
Early detection of chronic heart failure has become increasingly important since the introduction of effective treatment. However, clinical diagnosis of heart failure is known to be difficult, especially in mi...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:12
Oral anticoagulation monitoring has traditionally taken place in secondary care because of the need for a laboratory blood test, the international normalised ratio (INR). The development of reliable near patie...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:11
The FDA recently moved loratadine (Claritin) from prescription only status to over-the-counter (OTC). In response to the availability of an OTC non-sedating antihistamine, many managed care organizations are r...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:10
Despite evidence-based guidelines, aspirin prescribing for the secondary prevention of stroke is sub-optimal. Little is known about why general practitioners do not prescribe aspirin to indicated patients. We ...
Citation: BMC Family Practice 2003 4:9
Citation Impact
2.022 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.469 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.255 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.062 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
993,616 Downloads
1495 Altmetric mentions