BACKGROUND Anti-smoking advice from general practitioners (GPs) is effective and recent evidence-based guidelines urge GPs to advise all patients against smoking at every opportunity. GPs do not exploit many opportunities to discuss smoking with patients and the reasons for this are unclear. AIM To elicit, relate, and interpret GPs' accounts of why they discuss smoking with some patients and ...

During recent years, the national policy of the United Kingdom has increasingly recognized the central place of general practitioners (GPs) in the care of cancer patients, from screening and early diagnosis through to palliative care and bereavement. There are, however, continuing reports of poor control of pain and other symptoms in the community. To investigate general practitioners' prescrib...

OBJECTIVE To improve access to clinical information for nurses and doctors providing after hours community palliative care in a regional Australian setting. DESIGN This was an action research project designed to improve collation and distribution of succinct, pertinent and timely information about unstable palliative care patients to nurses and general practitioners (GPs) involved in after ho...

Epilepsy care in general practice has been criticized, but what do GPs feel they deal with most and complete satisfactorily? If criticism is justified, education should be useful in improving epilepsy care, but what do general practitioners want to learn and how do they want to learn it? Questionnaires about these issues were sent to randomly chosen general practitioners throughout the United K...

Nutrition advice from general practitioners (GPs) is held in high regard by the general public, yet the literature investigating the role of GPs in the provision of nutrition care is limited. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perceptions of general practice medical educators (GPMEs) regarding the role of GPs in general practice nutrition care, the competencies required by GPs to provi...

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are being used more and more by general practitioners (GPs) in their day-to-day activities. While a number of studies have shown that ICT adoption and use can provide real benefits to medical practices, there have been few studies to determine whether the perception of those benefits is uniform across the sector. This study examines whether dif...

A questionnaire exploring general practitioners' (GPs') perceptions of the barriers and solutions to providing health care to people with intellectual disability was sent to 912 randomly selected GPs throughout Australia. A response rate of 58% was obtained. Results indicated that numerous barriers compromise the quality of health care able to be provided to people with intellectual disability....

BACKGROUND Superficial basal cell carcinoma (SBCC) is a skin cancer commonly treated by general practitioners. Little is known about how GPs choose from the available treatment options. METHOD A cross sectional survey was conducted by self administered questionnaire. RESULTS Of 257 GPs surveyed, 107 responded (adjusted response rate 59%). Sixty-three percent reported treating more than two ...

INTRODUCTION Talking about death and dying, either with patients terminally ill or well, presents challenges for the general practitioner. There are few Australian educational resources and little Australian research into this area. METHODS We undertook two focus groups, an interview process, and a final consultation with palliative care experts and GPs. RESULTS General practitioners felt t...

physicians awareness about Helicobacter pylori association with peptic ulcer disease (PUD)has changed the natural course of this prolonged disease.Eradication of this organism has declined the incidence of complications and recurrence of PUD significantly in recent years.the aim of this cross sectional study was to evaluate the level of knowledge,attitude and practice (KAP) of general practitio...