General practitioners' knowledge of notifiable, reportable, and prescribed diseases

Estimates of reports of notifiable diseases by general practitioners in regional Western Australia.

We surveyed the attitudes of general practitioners to the notification of gazetted diseases in the south-west of Western Australia. Notification rates were calculated from the number of notifications recorded by the Southern Public Health Unit or the Communicable Disease Control Program of the State Health Department, and the estimated population of the region, the metropolitan area and the Sta...

Knowledge of Kerman General Practitioners about Tramadol in 2004

Background: Tramadol is an opioid analgesic indicated for the management of moderate and severe pains. Its side effects, in parts are due to the activation of µ receptors and in parts to increasing central catecholamine and serotonin levels. In the case of long administration, tramadol has a potential to cause dependency, tolerance and also drug abuse. After prohibition of injective diclofenac,...

Indifferent reporting of notifiable diseases.

Sexually transmissible diseases--knowledge and practices of general practitioners in Victoria, Australia.

OBJECTIVE To examine knowledge and practices in relation to sexually transmissible diseases (STDs) of general practitioners (GPs) in Victoria, Australia. METHOD A questionnaire was distributed to 520 Victorian GPs randomly selected from the Australian Medical Publishing Company (AMPCo) database of Australian medical practitioners. RESULTS A response rate of 85% was obtained. While sexual he...

Survey of General Practitioners` points of view about the common and uncommon symptoms of diseases in Iran

Introduction. One of the most important reasons of failure of traditional medical education in preparing efficient and competent physicians for the real world of practice is using disease-oriented medical education. However patients never tell their diseases to physicians, but mostly they complain their symptoms and the physicians should diagnose the problem and attempt to its treatment. Unfort...