Night Calls in General Practice

Night cough and general practice research.

Thirty-four children, aged between three and nine years, presenting with nocturnal cough, were studied on successive nights using an automatic voice activated tape recorder system. Children with a family history of atopy coughed significantly more than children without such a family history. A wide variation in cough frequency was found both between and within subjects. No effects of treatment ...

Relation between night visit rates and deprivation measures in one general practice.

OBJECTIVE To compare night visit rates in different electoral wards of one general practice with the Jarman and Townsend deprivation scores and unemployment rates. DESIGN Analysis of computerised workload data. SETTING General practice in centre of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. OUTCOME MEASURE Visits made in 588 nights to the 11,998 patients on the practice list. RESULTS Night visit rates...

A Preliminary Investigation of Cast Anxiety in General Orthopaedic Practice

Background: Anxiety following casting is an unrecognised complication that results in frequent visits to fracture clinic in the UK. There is a paucity of research regarding this complication. Failure to recognise Cast Anxiety (CA) leads to increased visits, frequent cast changes and possible failure of treatment despite no objective problems with the cast. Prior research has suggested a possibl...

Situating general practice training in the general practice context.

Migraine in general practice.

MIGRAINE does not kill. It produces painful, incapacitating attacks that last for hours and which with agonising regularity disrupt the normal pattern of life. This essay deals with the identification and treatment of trigger factors, which in a susceptible individual provoke a disabling paroxysmal headache. Trigger factors as diverse as stress, hunger, alcohol, fatigue, menstruation, oral cont...