BACKGROUND Several studies suggest that men and women are treated differently for similar disease including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Differences in attitudes and treatment practices towards men and women with obesity are not well recognized. OBJECTIVE To investigate the attitudes and treatment practices among Danish general practitioners (GPs), in relation to treatment of overweig...

of higher education into focus in the past few years. they have tried to improve the quality of their own higher education. the studies show that iranian universities are not at an accepted level in terms of quality. they have encountered several problems which have diminished their quality level. this study aimed at assessing the quality of medical education program as viewed by general practi...

Introduction: Diagnosis lies at the heart of general practice.Every day general practitioners (GPs) visit patients with awide variety of complaints and concerns, with often minor butsometimes serious symptoms. General practice has many featureswhich differentiate it from specialty care setting, but during thelast four decades little attention was paid to clinical reasoningin general practice. T...

We report findings of a cross-sectional postal survey of current prescribing practices of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) by Irish General Practitioners from a random sample of 600 Irish College of General Practitioners members. Median estimated prescribing rate of HRT was 17.5% (interquartile range 10 to 30%). The majority of General Practitioners would prescribe for the prevention of osteop...

OBJECTIVES To ascertain the extent of and trends in the use of acupuncture in Australian general practice and the characteristics of patients receiving publicly subsidised acupuncture services from general practitioners (GPs). DESIGN Secondary analysis of national patient Medicare data for claims by all non-specialist medical practitioners for Medicare Benefits Schedule items for an attendanc...

OBJECTIVE To identify key characteristics of psychologically distressed general practitioners and whether these GPs volunteered for a "GP health" educational program. SETTING Eight Australian divisions of general practice responding to an invitation to participate in the research in 1999, representing 1356 GPs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), together with de...

BACKGROUND Acupuncture services form a significant part of the Australian healthcare setting, with national registration of acupuncture practitioners, public subsidies for acupuncture services and high use of acupuncture by the Australian public. Despite these circumstances, there has been little exploration of the interface between acupuncture providers and conventional primary healthcare prac...

BACKGROUND Current health policies assume that prescribing is more efficient and rational when general practitioners (GPs) work with a formulary or restricted drugs lists and thus with a limited range of drugs. Therefore we studied determinants of the range of drugs prescribed by general practitioners, distinguishing general GP-characteristics, characteristics of the practice setting, character...

BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) can contribute substantially to the promotion of smoking cessation in the general population. However, engagement of GPs in helping their patients to quit remains very limited in many countries, including Germany. Therefore, new strategies to foster implementation of evidence-based methods in smoking cessation assistance have to be identified, and data for...

BACKGROUND General practitioners' satisfaction with previous referral of patients may influence their future specialist referral patterns. METHOD A postal survey of 123 GPs assessing satisfaction with discharge planning and communication from operating surgeons for patients following carotid endarterectomy. General practitioners' views of quality indicators for patient referral also were asse...