Xavier, Mangiavillano Jéromine, Tréfond Guillaume, Plaquevent-Hostache Gilles, Tanguy Sylvaine, Bœuf-Gibot Aurélien, Mulliez Philippe, Vorilhon
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BMC Family Practice
BackgroundHome blood-pressure measurement (HBPM) is recommended for the diagnosis of hypertension and monitoring of patients with hypertension. Since 2013, the French National Health Insurance Body (FNHIB) has promoted HBPM to general practitioners (GPs). The objective of the study was to evaluate the practice of HBPM by French GPs to diagnose and ...
Ameh, Soter Akeem, Bolarinwa Oladimeji Ochimana, Caleb Oluwasanu, Abayomi Olabayo Mohamed, Shukri F. Okello, Samson Muhihi, Alfa Danaei, Goodarz
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Background Universal health coverage is one of the Sustainable Development Goal targets known to improve population health and reduce financial burden. There is little qualitative data on access to and quality of primary healthcare in East and West Africa. The aim of this study was to describe the viewpoints of healthcare users, healthcare provider...
Adams, Siraaj Mulubwa, Mwila van Huyssteen, Mea Bheekie, Angeni
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Background Chronic patients are required to access their chronic medicines on a regular basis, often only to refill their repeat prescriptions. Adherence to chronic medicines is challenging and has stimulated health care providers to devise differentiated service delivery models of care to decentralise chronic medicine distribution to decrease the ...
Hirose, Yuta Shikino, Kiyoshi Ohira, Yoshiyuki Matsuoka, Sumihide Mikami, Chihiro Tsuchiya, Hayami Yokokawa, Daiki Ikegami, Akiko Tsukamoto, Tomoko Noda, Kazutaka
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Background Patient awareness surveys on polypharmacy have been reported previously, but no previous study has examined the effects of sending feedback to health professionals on reducing medication use. Our study aimed to conduct a patient survey to examine factors contributing to polypharmacy, feedback the results to health professionals, and anal...
Keller, Michelle S. Truong, Lyna Mays, Allison M. Needleman, Jack Heilemann, Mary Sue V. Nuckols, Teryl K.
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Background Given the risks of opioids, clinicians are under growing pressure to treat pain with non-opioid medications. Yet non-opioid analgesics such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have their own risks: patients with kidney disease or gastrointestinal diseases can experience serious adverse events. We examined the likelihood tha...
Collins, C. Homeniuk, R.
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BMC Family Practice
Background General practice plays a central role in the Irish health system. This study aimed to determine a baseline estimate of the number of consultations completed in general practice in Ireland annually to facilitate evidence-based healthcare planning. Methods A survey was emailed to all 3378 individual members of the Irish College of General ...
Liu, Di Yang, Xu Li, Qinglin Shi, Lei Tang, Qiaoran
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BMC Family Practice
Background Primary care providers are pillars of China’s medical and health sectors. However, due to the gap between career expectations and reality, they enter a career plateau phase through excessive pressure. This study aims to examine the prevalence and associated factors of the career plateau of primary care providers in Heilongjiang Province,...
Al Shammari, Malak Hassan, Ali AlShamlan, Nouf Alotaibi, Sarah Bamashmoos, Manar Hakami, Amani Althunyan, Abdullatif Basager, Shymaa Motabgani, Sameerah Aljubran, Sawsan
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BMC Family Practice
Background Family medicine physicians may encounter a wide variety of conditions, including acute and urgent cases. Considering the limited access to diagnostic investigations in primary care practice, chest X-ray remains the imaging modality of choice. The current study assessed the competency of family medicine residents in the interpretation of ...
Zelenytė, Virginija Valius, Leonas Domeikienė, Auksė Gudaitytė, Rita Endzinas, Žilvinas Šumskas, Linas Maleckas, Almantas
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BMC Family Practice
Background The attitudes towards obesity may have an important role on healthier behavior. The goal of the present study was to explore the attitudes towards obesity and to investigate how these attitudes were associated with lifestyle-changing behavior among the patients attending primary care centers, health care professionals and public health e...
Dutour, Marion Kirchhoff, Anna Janssen, Cécile Meleze, Sabine Chevalier, Hélène Levy-Amon, Sandrine Detrez, Marc-Antoine Piet, Emilie Delory, Tristan
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world in early 2020. In France, General Practitioners (GPs) were not involved in the care organization’s decision-making process before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. This omission could have generated stress for GPs. We aimed first to estimate the self-perception of stress as def...
