OBJECTIVES To determine general practitioners' (GPs') attitudes towards and involvement in general practice research. DESIGN Postal survey and semi-structured interviews conducted from May to September 2001. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING 467 of 631 GPs in four Queensland Divisions of General Practice responded to the survey (74% response rate); 18 selected GPs were interviewed. MAIN OUTCOME ME...

Back pain is a common problem in general practice, and is of enormous economic importance. A recent report urges general practitioners (GPs) to refer early for manual therapies, such as osteopathy. The key concept to understanding osteopathic principles is somatic dysfunction. This is a disorder of function, rather than pathology, of the musculoskeletal and related systems. Its characteristic f...

BACKGROUND Against the background of well-described associations between oral and general health, collaboration between dentists and general practitioners (GP) is crucial to provide therapeutic and preventive patient care. However, in the German health system, GPs and dentists are organizationally separated, implying that interprofessional collaboration can only occur informally and on a volunt...

OBJECTIVE To assess the general practitioners (GP) knowledge regarding the diagnosis and initial drug therapy for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS A questionnaire-based survey was conducted in randomly selected GPs of Karachi. Doctors working in community as GPs who were registered medical practitioners having a Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery degree were included in the ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate care for patients with psychological or social problems provided by mental health nurses (MHNs), and by general practitioners (GPs) with and without MHNs. DESIGN An observational study with consultations recorded by GPs and MHNs. SETTING Data were routinely recorded in 161-338 Dutch general practices between 2010 and 2014. PARTICIPANTS All patients registered at ...

BACKGROUND We recently showed that abdominal obesity measurements (waist and hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio) were inaccurate when performed by general practitioners (GPs). We hypothesise that measurement error could be even higher in overweight and obese patients due to difficulty in locating anatomical landmarks. We aimed to estimate GPs' measurement error of general (weight, height and...

BACKGROUND This study compares general practitioners (GPs) and general practice trainees (GPTs) on the adaptation to the electronic health records (EHRs) and how they perceive its impact on medical consultations. METHODS Cross-sectional, descriptive study. The link for an online questionnaire was sent to mainland Portuguese health care centre groups. RESULTS A total of 147 physicians (100 f...

Like other Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), medical practices can gain a great deal by adopting and using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Unlike other SMEs, little is known about General Practitioners’ (GPs) perceptions of the benefits of ICT use or about the differences between these perceptions by male and female GPs. This chapter reports a survey of these perceptions of...

OBJECTIVE To explore general practitioners' (GPs) views on leadership roles and leadership challenges in general practice and primary health care. DESIGN We conducted focus groups (FGs) with 17 GPs. SETTING Norwegian primary health care. SUBJECTS 17 GPs who attended a 5 d course on leadership in primary health care. RESULTS Our study suggests that the GPs experience a need for more prep...