The editors of BMC Family Practice would like to thank all of our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 15 (2014).

Financial and operational benchmarking data for family practice residency programs within the University of Washington Network were established for the year 2000. Data were systematically collected by standardized questionnaire, evaluated for quality and verified, and then analyzed. Revenues, expenses, faculty structures, productivity, and family practice center staffing models are reported, us...

This article reports on a national study of collaborative relationships between general practitioners and other health care providers in 20 Division of General Practice projects. It argues that health care organisations will need to collaborate with others in the future and that much can be learnt from the literature on collaborative networks in business and community organisations. Successful ...

BACKGROUND Telemedicine, based on the use of interactive video consultations, is being used more commonly in rural settings. This development is potentially important to rural patients because there are fewer physicians, particularly specialist physicians, in rural areas. Declining costs of telemedicine equipment and transmission have created increased access to these technologies for rural fam...

This review considers key areas in primary care regarding the diagnosis of dementia. Issues surrounding assessment, policy and incentives are considered. In addition, the relevance of non-medication approaches for dementia in primary care, which aim to enhance or maintain quality of life by maximising psychological and social function in the context of existing disabilities, is deliberated. Fin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate aspects of internal scale validity and reliability of the Swedish version of the Impact on Participation and Autonomy questionnaire (IPA-S) for use in people with spinal cord injury. SUBJECTS A total of 161 persons with spinal cord injury. METHOD IPA-S psychometric properties were evaluated using Rasch rating scale analysis. RESULTS The results show that the IPA-S ha...

Symposia on topics relating science and technology to development issues continue to be organized by the Interciencia Association (IA), the inter-American federation of national scientific organizations which AAAS helped *to found in 1975. These events, 14 of which have been sponsored since 1976, have taken place in all eight countries which comprise the Interciencia group (Brazil, Canada, Colo...

Integral to any discipline is its ethical foundation for practice. The AmericanNurses Association (ANA) describes theNursingCode of Ethics as the non-negotiable ethical standard of the nursing profession, serving as an expression of nursing’s commitment to society. The code consists of 9 provisions with interpretative statements (herein italicized under each provision). Each interpretative stat...

II. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom solely for GPs. Founded in 1952, it has over 46,000 members who are committed to improving patient care, developing their own skills and promoting general practice as a discipline. We are an independent professional body with enormous expertise in patient-centred generalist clinica...

60 General practitioners having M.B., B.S. qualification from all age group practicing in Bangalore city's centrally located locality were personally visited and a specially designed proforma was administered to find out whether they come across Psychiatric patients in their general practice, if yes what percentage of their practice ? Whether they referred any cases for Psychiatric consultation...