QOF now accounts for less than 10% of GP practice income

Why Is Consumption Less Volatile Than Income?

Is Now More than 10 Years

since artificial intelligence techniques were first applied in telecommunications. That is a long time, given the current speed of technological change. It is reasonable, therefore, to consider some ways in which the application of AI to telecommunications has evolved over this period. A decade ago, the AI approaches applied in telecommunications were primarily rulebased. The article “Tuning Nu...

Frequency and Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) Strains Isolated from Children Aged Less Than 10 Years

ABSTRACT              Background and Objectives: Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) pathotypes are important causes of diarrhea among children in developing countries. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency and antibiotic resistance pattern of DEC pathotypes in children aged less than 10 years.   &nbs...

Statin therapy now more common than steroids in clinical practice.

Dear Editor, In the recent article from Ozen et al, the authors found increased risk of diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with normal US adult population. The authors have also reported increased risk of DM in patients with RA who took glucocorticoids (GCs) and statin therapy. Surprisingly, the HR of diabetes has been found to be higher in the statin gro...

Do GP Registrars Care about QOF? An Audit of General Practice Registrar Quality and Outcome Framework Achievement

In the first week of February 2013 random routine surgeries were retrospectively selected for each registrar and each patient’s notes were reviewed with regards to how many QOF indicators had been addressed or missed by the registrar during the consultation. A second round of audit was conducted during the final week of February to investigate if the recommendations for change in practice had m...