Prospects for general practice research are bright despite research assessment exercise

Prioritising general practice research.

1 GAbout 85% of the Australian population claim at least one general practice service from Medicare per year. Over 137 million such consultations were delivered by 33 279 general practitioners in 2014e15. In 2011e12, PHC spending was $50.6 billion (36.1% of total health expenditure), with $28.6 billion spent on predominantly general practice-based medical services and medications. Multiple stud...

General practice research.

Research in General Practice

IN this age of specialisation, if General Practice is to survive as a subject and not to disintegrate and fragment as successive parts are swallowed up by the increasing numbers of specialities, whose fields become narrower and narrower, then it must establish itself on three foundations. That is to say-(a) the practice of good and better general practice; (b) the academic teaching of general p...

Dietary and exercise assessment in general practice.

BACKGROUND Diet and physical activity are important in many conditions managed in primary care. Dietary and physical activity assessment is complex, has inherent inaccuracies related to self-reporting, and is only a small part of a larger context of developing effective intervention in primary care. However, for personalized assessment in routine clinical care, and for the assessment of differe...

General Support for Integrated Assessment Research DOE