Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate physicians’ level knowledge and awareness regarding the side effects bisphosphonates (BPs). Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive conducted at University Hospital. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire given group research assistants all whom required prescribe BPs, including internists (oncologists, endocrinologists rhe...

In this issue of the JABFP Eaton et all describe differences in self-reported cholesterol testing, counseling, and treatment among US medical specialists in 1991. Data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)2 showed that family physicians (23.5 percent) and cardiologists (13.1 percent) reported performing cholesterol testing much less often during annual health examinations tha...

BACKGROUND Swiss primary care (PC) is facing workforce shortage. Up to 2011 this workforce was supplied by two board certifications: general medicine and internal medicine. To strengthen them against subspecialties, they were unified into one: general internal medicine. However, since unification general practitioners' career options are no longer restrained by early commitment to PC. This may ...

BACKGROUND This study aims to elucidate the knowledge and practice of general practitioners (GP) and internists regarding diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori ) infection in a high prevalent area, with the intent to assist with future educational strategies for H. pylori infection. METHODS In this cross-sectional study in Guilan, a Northern Province of Iran, all GPs and int...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate temporal differences in the documentation of neurological findings by the same physicians in patients with ischaemic stroke while in hospital. We also investigated differences in the rate of documentation of neurological findings in patients with stroke between internists and neurosurgeons. DESIGN A retrospective medical chart review. PARTICIPANTS Hospitalised adult pa...

BACKGROUND The recent American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association exercise testing guidelines provided equations to calculate treadmill scores and recommended their use to improve the predictive accuracy of the standard exercise test. However, if physicians can estimate the probability of coronary artery disease as well as the scores can, there would be no reason to add this compl...