OBJECTIVE Turkey has implemented family practice on a pilot basis as part of the reform in health care, since 2005. This paper aims to understand and describe the prevalent practice patterns and clinic characteristics during the transition period. DESIGN A cross-sectional descriptive study design was used. SUBJECTS An online survey was conducted among Turkish GPs working as primary care doc...

The use of an electronic mailing list as a means of communication among faculty in a network of university-affiliated family practice residency programs was evaluated. Faculty were automatically subscribed to the list by the list owner. Messages were tracked for one year and a written evaluation survey was sent. Ninety two messages were sent, with 52% of the messages being posted information. W...

European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN) Abstracts from the EGPRN meeting in Leipzig, Germany, 12–16 October 2016. Theme: ‘General practice/family medicine in a changing world’s from the EGPRN meeting in Leipzig, Germany, 12–16 October 2016. Theme: ‘General practice/family medicine in a changing world’ Introduction to the theme ‘General practice/ family medicine in a changing world’ S...

Ternary and Quaternary Lattice Diagrams are introduced that can find applications to submicron design, and designing new fine-grain digital, analog and mixed FPGAs. They expand the ideas of Lattice diagrams [6, 111 and Linearly Independent (LI) Logic [5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 181. In a regular layout, every cell is connected to 4 , 6 or 8 neighbors and to a number of vertical, horizontal and dia...

The Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) requires that General Practice Residency (GPR) programs report a summary of each resident's clinical experiences. The goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness of handheld computer technology in tracking residents' clinical procedures. In the academic years 2004-05 and 2005-06, University of Kentucky GPR residents were provided a Palm M1...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to report the distribution of procedures provided to Virginia Medicaid children by 3 types of dental providers in rural and urban areas. METHODS Medicaid claims filed for dental patients less than 21 years old were obtained and analyzed for fiscal years 1994-1995. Dental providers were categorized according to their practice type: (1) general practice (GP...

John Aloizos is a part-time GP in Brisbane and is currently Chairman of the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council, and a member of the Australian Health Information Council, where he Chairs the Electronic Decision Support Steering Committee. He is a former member of the General Practice Computing Group Management Committee and the General Practice Partnership Advisory Council. He was the i...

OBJECTIVES To explore Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited (AGPAL) surveyors' perceptions of the impact of accreditation on patient safety and to elicit suggestions for improving patient safety in Australian general practices. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with a purposive national sample of 10 AGPAL surveyors from 2 July to 14...

OBJECTIVES This study tested whether clinical experiences in family practice are associated with matching into family practice. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study of 913 medical students who completed the Family Practice Preceptorship (FPP) at the University of Iowa from 1990-1996. Using univariate techniques and logistic regression, we compared the background and experiences of ...

BACKGROUND Consultation skills are essential for general practice. Tools for measuring consultation skills in everyday practice are not well developed AIM To examine and develop the content validity of the MAAS History-taking and Advice Checklist GP (MAAS-GP) tool which is used in The Netherlands for testing consultation skills, with simulated patients in United Kingdom general practice from ...