The aim of this general practice study was to examine how the consulting behaviour of patients with a cough was affected when the tasks and responsibilities of patients, practice nurses and general practitioners were reorganized. In four 'average' single-handed general practices the effects on the consulting behaviour of patients of a rational practice policy on cough and the provision of syste...

OBJECTIVE To identify the main reason James Cook University (JCU) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery graduates chose their internship location and first four practice relocations. DESIGN & PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional study invited 261 JCU medical graduates to participate in an email or telephone survey. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Graduates' main reason for choosing internship locati...

BACKGROUND Internationally, there has been a call to improve the youth-friendliness of health services. In surveys, 60-90% of young people report having contact with a GP at least once a year. Regular contact with the GP can be assumed to be an indicator of a youth-friendly health service. The aim of the current study was to identify associations between a high consultation rate with young peop...

The Primary Health Care (PHC) working group of the Department of General Practice of Maastricht University in the Netherlands was founded in 1998 specifically to introduce students to patient care, research and education in primary health care settings outside the Netherlands. Rural health care in Australia is appealing to international medical students because of its unique setting. In the pas...

Stress in general practice in the UK is a regular feature of everyday life according to a whole series of research studies over recent years. Increasing stress is a feature of society as a whole and general practitioners’ ability to deal with stress in themselves may also influence their ability to help others to do the same. Stress is an ambiguous word that is used on different occasions to de...

 Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are a vital component of U.S. retirement savings, holding nearly one-quarter of all retirement plan assets in the nation. A substantial portion of these IRA assets originated in other tax-qualified retirement plans, such as defined benefit (pension) and 401(k) plans, and were moved to IRAs through rollovers from those plans.  As part of the EBRI Center f...

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13:470–475. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2041.

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...

BACKGROUND Increasing demands on general practice to manage chronic disease may warrant organisational change at the practice level. Staff's readiness for organisational change can act as a facilitator or barrier to implementing interventions aimed at organisational change. OBJECTIVES To explore general practice staff readiness for organisational change and its association with staff and prac...

fauna of the aphidiinae (hymenoptera: braconidae) of iran is reviewed and the data on their host aphid associations are summarized. seventy-eight species belonging to 17 genera of aphidiinae are listed in the associations with 193 aphid species. a total of 491 parasitoid-aphid associations are presented. the distribution of the aphidiinae species in different parts of iran and other countries i...