Primary Care and General Physicians.

psychopathology of the general population referred by primary care physicians for urgent assessment in psychiatric hospitals

objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the type, severity and progression of psychiatric pathologies in a sample of 372 outpatients (age range 18–65 years) referred by their primary general practitioners (gps) to an urgent referral team (urt) based in a psychiatric hospital in aberdeen, scotland. this team offers immediate appointments (1- to 7-day delays) for rapid assessments and ea...

Perspectives for primary care physicians

OBJECTIVE To review the need for primary care physicians to screen for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). QUALITY OF EVIDENCE Literature was reviewed via MEDLINE from 1993 to 2000, inclusive, using the search term “sleep apnea” combined with “epidemiology,” “outcome,” and “diagnosis and treatment.” Citations in this review favour more recent, well controlled and randomized studies, bu...

Primary care physicians and urologists--partners in "shared care".

[The learning characteristics of primary care physicians].

PURPOSE This study analyzed the learning characteristics of primary care physicians that are necessary to develop proper educational support systems in continuing medical education. METHODS The research participants were 15 physicians with an average of 8 years of experience in primary care clinics. The data were collected through in-person interviews with each participant and analyzed by key...

Pediatric Orthopedics for Primary Care Physicians

This revised and extended new edition retains the features that made the first edition such a popular text for pediatricians and primary care physicians: orthopedic disorders are arranged according to age of onset and also according to their frequency of occurrence, and this is supplemented with helpful guidelines for orthopedic referral. Distilling a vast wealth of the author's experience in t...