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- 1From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Making health care safer is a key policy priority worldwide. In specialty training, medical educators may unintentionally impact on patient safety e.g. through failures of supervision; providing limited...
- 2From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The number of cancer patients and the number of patients surviving initial treatments is expected to rise. Traditionally, follow-up monitoring takes place in secondary care. The contribution of general...
- 3From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Given the potential value of self-management support programs for people with chronic diseases, it is vital to understand how they influence participants' health attitudes and behaviours. The Stanford...
- 4From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In spite of the potential impact upon population health and expenditure, interventions promoting medication adherence have been found to be of moderate effectiveness and cost effectiveness. Understanding...
- 5From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Despite the availability of a wide selection of effective antihypertensive treatments and the existence of clear treatment guidelines, many patients with hypertension do not have controlled blood pressure....
- 6From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The prevention of type 2 diabetes is a recognised health care priority globally. Within the United Kingdom, there is a lack of research investigating optimal methods of translating diabetes prevention...
- 7From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Depression is common in coronary heart disease (CHD) and increases the incidence of coronary symptoms and death in CHD patients. Interventions feasible for use in primary care are needed to improve both...
- 8From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Reform of primary healthcare (PHC) organisations is underway in Canada. The capacity of various types of PHC organizations to respond to populations' needs remains to be assessed. The main objective of...
- 9From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Depression is frequently cited as the reason for sickness absence, and it is estimated that sickness certificates are issued in one third of consultations for depression. Previous research has considered...
- 10From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Good General Practice is essential for an effective health system. Good General Practice training is essential to sustain the workforce, however training for General Practice can be hampered by a number of...
- 11From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have experienced a lot of changes at the end of the 20th century, including changes in the health care systems and especially in primary care. The aim of this...
- 12From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The prevalence and impact of long term conditions continues to rise. Care planning for people with long term conditions has been a policy priority in England for chronic disease management. However, it is...
- 13From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Lower social economic status (SES) is related to an elevated cardiovascular (CV) risk. A pro-active primary prevention CV screening approach in general practice (GP) might be effective in a region with a...
- 14From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Primary care improvement is the cornerstone of current reforms. Mental disorders (MDs) are a leading cause of morbidity worldwide and widespread in industrialised countries. MDs are treated mainly in...
- 15From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground In most countries with sickness insurance systems, general practitioners (GPs) play a key role in the sickness-absence process. Previous studies have indicated that GPs experience several tasks and...
- 16From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground People with T1DM and insulin-treated T2DM often do not follow and/or adjust their insulin regimens as needed. Key contributors to treatment non-adherence are fear of hypoglycaemia, difficulty and lack of...
- 17From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In this paper a specialist in general practice is referred to as a general practitioner (GP). In Finland only half of all GPs work as a health centre physician. The present aim was to establish what the...
- 18From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Little is known about pressure from patients or relatives on physician's decision making of continuous palliative sedation. We aim to describe experienced pressure by general practitioners (GPs) in cases...
- 19From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Physical inactivity is a modifiable risk factor for many chronic conditions and a leading cause of premature mortality. An increasing proportion of adults worldwide are not engaging in a level of physical...
- 20From: BMC Family Practice. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In many OECD countries, the gender differences in physicians' pay favour male doctors. Due to the feminisation of the doctor profession, it is essential to measure this income gap in the French context of...