Obesity constitutes a global epidemic which is rapidly becoming a major public health problem in many parts of the world, threatening peoples' health and quality of life. The aim of our study was to estimate the prevalence and impact of overweight and obesity on physician consultations and frequency of use and furthermore, to investigate whether physician consultations in each of the groups def...

Seasonal variations in consultations for depression and osteoarthritis were discovered in the 1980 morbidity data of five London practices with a total of 32,524 patients. Depression showed a bimodal pattern similar to that described from hospital data and national suicide statistics, but not previously recorded from general practice. Osteoarthritis also showed a bimodal pattern, with peaks in ...

With a high economic, social, and personal burden, headache remains an important health problem. How UK GPs diagnose headache in the UK is unknown. In this study, a large primary care database was used and diagnostic categories were described for 91121 adult patients with new-onset headache, that is, patients who had not consulted for headache in the previous year. Seventy per cent of headaches...

introduction: from maturity to menopause, women are worried about pregnancy. abstinence from sex or use of pregnancy prevention methods are choices for them. as abstinence is impossible, the only remaining choice is use of pregnancy prevention methods. effective control of pregnancy is really essential for the health of mother and infant and also control of unplanned increase in population. reg...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence and consultation rate of lower extremity complaints in general practice. METHODS Data were obtained from the Second Dutch National Survey of General Practice, in which 195 general practitioners (GPs) in 104 practices recorded all contacts with patients during 12 consecutive months in computerised patient records. GPs classified the symptoms and diagnosis fo...

To the Editor—Jenkins et al. [1] analyzed the role of routine infectious diseases consultation on Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. The study did not show, however, a statistical difference in terms of treatment failure (such as bacteremia recurrence or death) between the group of patients who received routine infectious diseases consultation and the group of patients who did not receive it. Wi...

SYNOPSIS The establishment of a multidisciplinary consultation system is necessary for the diagnosis of complicated fetal anomalies. PURPOSE We aimed to investigate the incidences of different types of fetal anomalies and the influence of multidisciplinary consultation on fetal prognosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Multidisciplinary specialists include obstetricians, pediatricians, pediatric surg...

Objectives: The aim of the study is to reveal most common general surgery problems during pandemic period in our center, where all departments only deal with COVID-19 patients. Methods: In study, consultations made between 1st November 2020 and February 2021, when center served patients, were retrospectively examined. Demographic data distribution consultation was requested, reasons for consult...

Based upon past experience, when undertaking a large, complex, systems project, the realistic expectation should be that the project will fail. In particular, business process reengineering (BPR) projects have an even higher failure rate because of their expanded scope. Hiring a large, established consulting company is no guarantee of success; neither is buying packaged software and implementin...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have demonstrated marked international variations in the prevalence of asthma, but less is known about ethnic variations in asthma epidemiology within individual countries and in particular the impact of migration on risk of developing asthma. Recent within country comparisons have however revealed that despite originating from areas of the world with a low risk for de...