background defensive medicine prompts physicians not to admit high-risk patients who need intensive care. this phenomenon not only decreases the quality of healthcare services, but also wastes scarce health resources. defensive medicine occurs in negative and positive forms. hence, the present study aimed to determine frequency of positive and negative defensive medicine behaviors and their und...

background: for medical students, the selection of a specialty is one of the most critical decisions to be made. on a personal level, it determines lifetime career achievements and, for the community, it directly affects the outcome of public health programs. the aim of this study was to investigate which factors were more important among iranian residents when considering a specialty. methods:...

General practitioners (GPs) should develop sound learning habits to ensure successful independent, life-long learning throughout their professional life. However, GPs with their busy schedules usually face numerous daily demands leaving considerably little time for effective self-study.1 Trainees need to realise that learning is not merely to pass examinations but to continually keep up-to-date...

BACKGROUND There is little known about women's concurrent use of conventional and complementary health care during pregnancy, particularly consultation patterns with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). This study examines health service utilisation among pregnant women including consultations with obstetricians, midwives, general practitioners (GPs) and CAM practitioners. METHODS A ...

Background: It is well known that general practitioners (GPs) often do not adhere to clinical guidelines, but reasons for this seem complex and difficult to understand. Limited research focuses on the total amount of clinical guidelines as they appear in general practice. The aim of this study was to get in-depth information by exploring Norwegian GPs’ experiences and reflections on the use of ...

Alcohol-screening questionnaires have been found to be effective in the early detection of risky drinking but are rarely used by clinicians in primary care. As research agenda tend not to seek the perspectives of patients and general practitioners (GPs), the best way to address the barriers to implementation is unclear. Contemporary research to explore patient beliefs and attitudes towards alco...

OBJECTIVE The GRIF automated feedback system produces real-time comments on the appropriateness of diagnostic tests ordered by general practitioners (GPs) based on recommendations from accepted national and regional practice guidelines. We investigated the experiences of GPs with this system and, more specifically, with the recommendations produced by the system as well as their views on using ...

The Royal College of General Practitioners describes generalism as expertise in whole person medical care[1]. According to the Shape of Training review, there is a need to train more generalists to deal with the changing pressures that face today’s health services, such as growing numbers of patients with multiple chronic morbidities[2,3]. General practitioners (GPs) are the largest number of t...

Six million informal carers provide support for aged and disabled people in the United Kingdom. Government policies suggest that primary care teams are the main support for carers. This postal survey of 300 general practitioners (GPs) and 272 district nurses (DNs) aimed to determine current practice and views on their role in supporting informal carers. In practice, GPs and DNs lack time, resou...

The paper presents how authentication and encryption is implemented in the Snow disease surveillance network. Requirements for the authentication mechanism were collected from General Practitioners (GPs). The identity of each Snow user is preserved across health institutions allowing GPs to move freely between health institutions and use the system independent of location. This ability is combi...