Academic General Practice: Is it Relevant?

Empowerment in supported employment research and practice: is it relevant?

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional study is aimed at describing and investigating empowerment and its relationships with level of engagement in daily activities and community life, experienced stigma, psychopathology, and quality of life among people with mental illness entering supported employment. METHOD The following scales were administered to 120 persons: Empowerment Scale, Profiles of Occ...

Quantitative Dengue Test: Is it Practical for Clinical Practice?

Discourse analysis: what is it and why is it relevant to family practice?

This paper aims to illustrate what discourse analysis is and how it can contribute to our understanding of family practice. Firstly, we describe what 'discourse analysis' is, mapping the discourse analysis terrain by discussing four studies relevant to primary care to illustrate different methodological approaches and key concepts. We then address the practicalities of how to actually do discou...

A diagnostic support system in general practice: is it feasible?

A medical diagnostic decision support system (DDSS) has been developed for and tested in general practice. Two major issues have been addressed: diagnostic support and usefulness. The diagnostic support pertains to the ability of the system to generate diagnostic hypotheses from a set of patient data. The usefulness is approached by creating a computer system which can be used simultaneously wi...

Does academic general practice have a future?

rom modest beginnings little more than 30 years ago, Australian academic general practice has grown and prospered — particularly with the recent introduction of rural clinical departments and additional medical schools. General practice sits naturally at the “front line” for the prevention and management of a multitude of health problems — management that increasingly relies on the best informa...