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  1. Content type: Research article

    Hospital admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) are those that could potentially be prevented by timely and effective disease management within primary care. ACSC admissions are increasingl...

    Authors: Marjon van der Pol, Damilola Olajide, Mark Dusheiko, Robert Elliott, Bruce Guthrie, Louisa Jorm and Alastair H. Leyland

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:32

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  2. Content type: Study protocol

    Personal convictions in referral to pain cause misbeliefs in health professionals, which can influence patients who suffer from non-specific chronic low back pain. Likewise, health professionals’ beliefs affec...

    Authors: Ester García-Martínez, Jorge Soler-González, Francesc Rubí-Carnacea, Beatriz García-Martínez, Carolina Climent-Sanz, Joan Blanco-Blanco and Fran Valenzuela-Pascual

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:31

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  3. Content type: Debate

    Low back pain affects about 80% of all adults, many of whom consult general practice. Providing management can be challenging, in part due to the scarcity of effective treatment methods. There is broad consens...

    Authors: Allan Riis, Emma L. Karran, Jonathan C. Hill, Martin B. Jensen and Janus L. Thomsen

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:30

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  4. Content type: Research article

    Previous studies in general practice and hospital settings have identified that prescribing of non-insulin diabetes medications may be sub-optimal in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and renal impairment. Sin...

    Authors: Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Sharmala Thuraisingam, Janet K. Sluggett, Gary Kilov, John Furler, David O’Neal and Alicia Jenkins

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:29

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  5. Content type: Research article

    The ageing population and increasing prevalence of multimorbidity place greater resource demands on the health systems internationally. Accurate prediction of general practice (GP) services is important for he...

    Authors: Christopher Harrison, Joan Henderson, Graeme Miller and Helena Britt

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:28

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  6. Content type: Research article

    Anti-microbial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to public health and antibiotics are often unnecessarily prescribed for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in general practice. We aimed to investigat...

    Authors: Jane O’Doherty, Leonard F. W. Leader, Andrew O’Regan, Colum Dunne, Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil and Raymond O’Connor

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:27

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  7. Content type: Research article

    This study aimed to use marketing theory to examine the views of patients, pharmacists and general practitioners (GPs) on how community pharmacies are currently used and to identify how community pharmacy serv...

    Authors: Ali M. K. Hindi, Ellen I. Schafheutle and Sally Jacobs

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:26

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  8. Content type: Study protocol

    The management of hyperglycaemia and associated cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) may reduce diabetes-related complications. The strategy to broaden the knowledge bas...

    Authors: Àngels Molló, Anna Berenguera, Esther Rubinat, Bogdan Vlacho, Manel Mata, Josep Franch, Bonaventura Bolíbar and Dídac Mauricio

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:25

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  9. Content type: Study protocol

    Health personnel are susceptible to high levels of work stress and burnout due to the psychological and emotional demands of their work, as well as to other aspects related to the organisation of that work. Th...

    Authors: Luis-Angel Pérula-de Torres, Juan Carlos Verdes-Montenegro Atalaya, Javier García-Campayo, Ana Roldán-Villalobos, Rosa Magallón-Botaya, Cruz Bartolomé-Moreno, Herminia Moreno-Martos, Elena Melús-Palazón, Norberto Liétor-Villajos, Francisco Javier Valverde-Bolívar, Nur Hachem-Salas, Luis-Alberto Rodríguez, Mayte Navarro-Gil, Ronald Epstein, Antonio Cabezón-Crespo and Carmen Morillo-Velarde Moreno

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:24

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  11. Content type: Research article

    Patient safety research is conducted predominantly in hospital settings, with a dearth of insight from primary care, despite suggestions that 2.2% of primary care consultations result in a patient safety incid...

    Authors: Caoimhe Madden, Sinéad Lydon, Margaret E. Cupples, Nigel D. Hart, Ciara Curran, Andrew W. Murphy and Paul O’Connor

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:22

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  12. Content type: Research article

    Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is the most prevalent subtype of urinary incontinence and is a bothering condition in women. Only a minority of those with SUI consult a general practitioner (GP). EHealth wit...

    Authors: Lotte Firet, Chrissy de Bree, Carmen M. Verhoeks, Doreth A. M. Teunissen and Antoine L. M. Lagro-Janssen

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:21

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  13. Content type: Research article

    Research in primary care is essential for disease diagnosis, management and prevention in relation to the individuals, families and the community. This research aims to study the attitude of primary care physi...

    Authors: Abeer J. Khalaf, Aysha I. Aljowder, Meead J. Buhamaid, Mona F. Alansari and Ghufran A. Jassim

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:20

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  14. Content type: Research article

    Representing 60% of medical consultations in Switzerland, primary care holds an important place in our medical system. Patients’ values in family medicine (FM) are nowadays recognized as important factors to t...

    Authors: Marie Droz, Nicolas Senn and Christine Cohidon

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:19

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  15. Content type: Research article

    For unclarified reasons, parents tend to be cautious about administering analgesics to their children, potentially leading to suboptimal management of AOM symptoms. We aim to understand parents’ views and expe...

    Authors: Rick T. van Uum, Roderick P. Venekamp, Anne G. M. Schilder, Roger A. M. J. Damoiseaux and Sibyl Anthierens

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:18

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  16. Content type: Research article

    Healthcare providers play a critical role in facilitating patient access to medical cannabis. However, previous surveys suggest only a minority of providers believe that medical cannabis confers benefits to pa...

    Authors: Lindsey M. Philpot, Jon O. Ebbert and Ryan T. Hurt

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:17

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  17. Content type: Research article

    Anxiety and depression often co-exist. These disorders are under-diagnosed and under-treated, specifically among older people, and lead to increased use of health and social care services and raised mortality....

    Authors: Tom Kingstone, Bernadette Bartlam, Heather Burroughs, Peter Bullock, Karina Lovell, Mo Ray, Peter Bower, Waquas Waheed, Simon Gilbody, Elaine Nicholls and Carolyn A. Chew-Graham

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:16

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  18. Content type: Research article

    Fostering a culture of safety is an essential step in ensuring patient safety and quality in primary care. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention to improve the safety culture in...

    Authors: Clara González-Formoso, Ana Clavería, M.J. Fernández-Domínguez, F.L. Lago-Deibe, Luis Hermida-Rial, Antonio Rial, Francisco Gude-Sampedro, Salvador Pita-Fernández and Victoria Martín-Miguel

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:15

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  19. Content type: Correction

    Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error to one of the ‘study groups’ in the authorship section.

    Authors: Géraldine Tournu, Laurent Abramowitz, Camille Couffignal, Frédéric Juguet, Agnès Sénéjoux, Stéphane Berger, Anne-Laure Wiart, Marc Bernard, Françoise Provost, Hélène Pillant-Le Moult, Dominique Bouchard and Jean-Pierre Aubert

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:14

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    The original article was published in BMC Family Practice 2017 18:78

  20. Content type: Research article

    Communication between patients and providers about persistent “medically unexplained” physical symptoms (MUS) is characterized by discordance. While the difficulties are well documented, few studies have exami...

    Authors: Nicole Anastasides, Carmelen Chiusano, Christina Gonzalez, Fiona Graff, David R. Litke, Erica McDonald, Jennifer Presnall-Shvorin, Nicole Sullivan, Karen S. Quigley, Wilfred R. Pigeon, Drew A. Helmer, Susan L. Santos and Lisa M. McAndrew

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:13

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  21. Content type: Research article

    Sexually transmitted infections (STI) caused by multidrug resistant Neisseria gonorrhoea are an emerging threat to global health. In the Netherlands, the general practitioner (GP) provides the major part of STI c...

    Authors: Roos van Amerongen, Roel P. Gazendam and Jan E. A. M. van Bergen

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:12

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  22. Content type: Study protocol

    NHS Health Check is a national cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment programme for 40–74 year olds in England, in which practitioners should assess and communicate CVD risk, supported by appropriate ris...

    Authors: Christopher J. Gidlow, Naomi J. Ellis, Lisa Cowap, Victoria Riley, Diane Crone, Elizabeth Cottrell, Sarah Grogan, Ruth Chambers and David Clark-Carter

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:11

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  23. Content type: Research article

    Uncontrolled blood pressure remains an urgent issue in clinical practice worldwide. This study aimed to compare the characteristics and effectiveness of hypertension control in family medicine pratice in the f...

    Authors: Diana Jurić, Ivančica Pavličević, Ana Marušić, Mario Malički, Ivan Buljan, Velen Šarotić, Nataša Mrduljaš-Đujić, Ante Komparak, Miona Vujević, Danijela De Micheli-Vitturi, Pjera Šušnjar, Tina Puljiz, Minka Jerčić, Dario Leskur and Matko Marušić

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:10

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  24. Content type: Research article

    Health workforce turnover remains a global concern, particularly in rural and remote areas. Western rural areas are the least developed in China, where it faces the serious challenge on the rural health worker...

    Authors: Jinlin Liu, Bin Zhu, Jingxian Wu and Ying Mao

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:9

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  25. Content type: Research article

    The increasing number of available point-of-care (POC) tests challenges clinicians regarding decisions on which tests to use, how to efficiently use them, and how to interpret the results. Although POC tests m...

    Authors: Michelle M. A. Kip, J. Marjan Hummel, Elra B. Eppink, Hendrik Koffijberg, Rogier M. Hopstaken, Maarten J. IJzerman and Ron Kusters

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:8

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  26. Content type: Research article

    The PR1MaC study was conducted to evaluate the integration of Chronic Disease Prevention and Management services into primary care practices and was reported effective. The aim of this study was to further exp...

    Authors: Martin Fortin, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Bayero Boubacar Diallo and Tarek Bouhali

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:7

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  27. Content type: Research article

    The attitude of General Practitioner’s (GP’s) towards dementia and confidence in their clinical abilities impacts on diagnosis rates and management of the condition. The purpose of the present research is to r...

    Authors: Ron Mason, Kathleen Doherty, Claire Eccleston, Michael Annear, Amanda Lo, Laura Tierney, Fran McInerney and Andrew Robinson

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:6

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  29. Content type: Research article

    The prescribing of psychotropic drugs, i.e. antidepressants, sedatives (anxiolytics, hypnotics), and antipsychotics is considerable and a large proportion is prescribed by general practitioners (GPs). There ar...

    Authors: Staffan A. Svensson, Tove M. Hedenrud and Susanna M. Wallerstedt

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:4

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  30. Content type: Research article

    In Germany, home visits account for a considerable workload for many family practitioners, substantial rural-urban disparities are assumable with regards to home visit frequency and duration. Considering the o...

    Authors: Maik Pochert, Karen Voigt, Martin Bortz, Alessa Sattler, Jeannine Schübel and Antje Bergmann

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:3

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  31. Content type: Research article

    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 i...

    Authors: Grace M. Turner, Ricky Mullis, Lisa Lim, Lizzie Kreit and Jonathan Mant

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:2

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  32. Content type: Research article

    Diet is a key component of the management of diabetes. Several studies suggest that patients receive insufficient and inadequate information. As a first step for developing an intervention for improving dietar...

    Authors: Maria Alonso Arana, Jose Maria Valderas and Josie Solomon

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2019 20:1

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  33. Content type: Research article

    Comorbid depression is common in patients with type 2 diabetes (DM2) and/or coronary heart disease (CHD) and is associated with poor quality of life and adverse health outcomes. However, little is known about ...

    Authors: Alide D. Pols, Karen Schipper, Debbie Overkamp, Harm W. J. van Marwijk, Maurits W. van Tulder and Marcel C. Adriaanse

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:202

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  34. Content type: Research article

    Informal caregivers of people with dementia in Beijing are increasingly called upon to provide home-based care for their patients due to the increasing number of dementia patients and the shortage of standardi...

    Authors: Meirong Wang, Shuang Shao, Jing Li, Yingjie Liu, Xiaojingyuan Xu and Juan Du

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:201

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  35. Content type: Research article

    In the general practice setting screening, brief intervention and counselling have been shown to be effective in the reduction of problem alcohol use. This study aimed to explore Irish general practitioners’ (...

    Authors: Claire Collins, Pearse Finegan and Margaret O’Riordan

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:200

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  36. Content type: Research article

    Diabetes mellitus (DM) and periodontitis are very common and they interact with each other bidirectionally. This survey studied public primary care doctors on their awareness of this bidirectional relationship...

    Authors: Sut Yee Tse

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:199

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  37. Content type: Research article

    Nocturnal enuresis (NE) is a common symptom in children worldwide. International Children’s Continence Society (ICCS) defines enuresis as either mono-symptomatic, NE with lower urinary tract symptoms and NE wi...

    Authors: Sameena Shah, Rabab Zehra Jafri, Khalil Mobin, Rabeea Mirza, Kashmira Nanji, Fatima Jahangir, Sufian Jawed Patel, Muzamil Shabana Ejaz, Iman Qaiser, Hira Iftikhar, Komal Aziz, Wajiha Khan, Humza S. Maqbool and Hassaan Ahmed

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:198

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  38. Content type: Research article

    Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease. The number of prescriptions for antidepressants has risen dramatically in recent yea...

    Authors: Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Thomas Shepherd, Heather Burroughs, Katie Dixon and David Kessler

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:197

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  39. Content type: Research article

    Identification of perinatal mental health problems and effective care for women who experience them are important considering the potentially serious impact that they may have on the wellbeing of the woman, he...

    Authors: Maria Noonan, Owen Doody, Andrew O’Regan, Julie Jomeen and Rose Galvin

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:196

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  40. Content type: Research article

    HIV-infected patients often present to primary care several times with HIV-indicator conditions before diagnosis but the opportunity to test by healthcare professionals (HCPs) is frequently missed. Current HIV...

    Authors: Charlotte F. Davies, Joanna M. Kesten, Mark Gompels, Jeremy Horwood, Megan Crofts, Annette Billing, Charlotte Chick and Margaret T. May

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:195

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  41. Content type: Research article

    Self-management support is widely accepted for the management of chronic conditions. Self-management often requires behaviour change in patients, in which primary care nurses play a pivotal role. To support pa...

    Authors: Heleen Westland, Yvonne Koop, Carin D. Schröder, Marieke J. Schuurmans, P. Slabbers, Jaap C. A. Trappenburg and Sigrid C. J. M. Vervoort

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:194

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  42. Content type: Research article

    Burnout is increasingly prevalent among general practitioners (GPs) in Hungary, which may lead to functional impairment and, subsequently, to poor quality of patient care. However, little is known about potent...

    Authors: Szilvia Adam, Andras Mohos, Laszlo Kalabay and Peter Torzsa

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:193

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  43. Content type: Research article

    Patients should receive follow-up serum creatinine tests after an initial abnormal result to diagnose chronic kidney disease. However, half of the time this fails to occur in primary care. We interviewed prima...

    Authors: Danielle M. Nash, Amit X. Garg, K. Scott Brimble and Maureen Markle-Reid

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:192

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  44. Content type: Research article

    The Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration study was an integrated, systems-oriented intervention that incorporated primary and secondary obesity prevention approaches targeting multiple sectors, inclu...

    Authors: Meliha Salahuddin, Sarah E. Barlow, Stephen J. Pont, Nancy F. Butte and Deanna M. Hoelscher

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:191

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  45. Content type: Research article

    By screening and modifying risk factors, stroke incidence can be reduced. Clinical guidelines states that primary prevention of stroke is a responsibility and task of primary health care, but research shows th...

    Authors: Ann-Helen Patomella, Gustav Mickols, Eric Asaba, Gunnar Nilsson, Cecilia Fridén, Anders Kottorp, Bo Christer Bertilson and Kerstin Tham

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:190

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  46. Content type: Research article

    In response to a rising shortage of general practitioners (GPs), physicians in general internal medicine (GIM) have become part of the German primary care physician workforce. Previous studies have shown subst...

    Authors: C. Strumann, K. Flägel, T. Emcke and J. Steinhäuser

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:189

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  47. Content type: Research article

    First-contact accessibility remains an important problem in Canada, with this indicator staying the worst of all Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. In the province of Quebec, a n...

    Authors: Andrée-Anne Paré-Plante, Antoine Boivin, Djamal Berbiche, Mylaine Breton and Maryse Guay

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:188

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  48. Content type: Research article

    While trust in physicians has been rigorously investigated regarding its concept, measurement, and factors, the studies have mainly focused on the attributes of the physicians. This approach can lead to a limi...

    Authors: Agnus M. Kim, Jaekyoung Bae, Sungchan Kang, Yeon-Yong Kim and Jin-Seok Lee

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:187

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  49. Content type: Research article

    The medical practice of general practitioners/family physicians in urban areas differs from that in rural areas, accounting for the difference in specific competencies. However, variations in competencies in c...

    Authors: Toshichika Mitsuyama, Daisuke Son and Masato Eto

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:186

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  50. Content type: Research article

    Anxiety and depression are common in older adults, but often under-recognised by GPs. Rather than perceiving themselves as suffering from anxiety or depression, older adults are more likely to self-identify as...

    Authors: Alice Moult, Heather Burroughs, Tom Kingstone and Carolyn A. Chew-Graham

    Citation: BMC Family Practice 2018 19:185

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