Nakayama, Gen Masumoto, Shoichi Haruta, Junji Maeno, Tetsuhiro
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Family practice
Improving individuals' experience of care is now a critical goal of health care systems. Although a number of instruments have been developed to measure experience of care, few instruments measure family caregivers' experience of interprofessional care for patients and families. To develop the Japanese version of the Caregivers' Experience Instrume...
Granger, Bradi B Britten, Nicky Swedberg, Karl Ekman, Inger
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Family practice
Gordijn, Rineke Nicolai, Melianthe P J Elzevier, Henk W Guchelaar, Henk-Jan Teichert, Martina
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Family practice
Adverse drug reactions on sexual functioning (sADRs) may seriously decrease a person's quality of life. A multitude of diseases and drugs are known risk factors for sexual dysfunction. To inform patients better about these potential effects, more insight is needed on the estimated number of patients at high risk for sADRs and their characteristics....
Godbee, Kali
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Family practice
Saraswat, Nidhi Everett, Bronwyn Pillay, Rona Prabhu, Neeta George, Ajesh
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Family practice
Oral cancer is a public health concern and is widespread in developing countries, particularly in South Asia. However, oral cancer cases are also rising in developed nations due to various factors, including smoking, viruses and increased migration from South Asia. In this context, the role of general medical practitioners (GPs) in identifying oral...
James, Oscar Cardwell, Karen Moriarty, Frank Smith, Susan M Clyne, Barbara
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Family practice
There is some evidence to suggest that pharmacists integrated into primary care improves patient outcomes and prescribing quality. Despite this growing evidence, there is a lack of detail about the context of the role. To explore the implementation of The General Practice Pharmacist (GPP) intervention (pharmacists integrating into general practice ...
Larsen, Lars Bruun Thilsing, Trine Pedersen, Line Bjørnskov
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Family practice
Preventive health checks targeted at the at-risk population can be a way of preventing noncommunicable diseases. However, evidence on patient preferences for preventive health checks is limited, especially among patients with a high risk of noncommunicable diseases. To examine patient preferences for preventive health checks in Danish general pract...
Naville, Raphaël Subtil, Fabien Sy, Mansour Marquis, Michel Costes, Pierre Letrilliart, Laurent
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Family practice
Minimal data are available on the clinical activity of general practitioners (GPs) in Africa. To describe the health problems managed by GPs in Mali as compared with France where epidemiological transition is already advanced. A retrospective, multicenter study, conducted in five Malian Community Health Centers. We compared their consultation data ...
van Melle, Marije Yep Manzano, Samir I S Wilson, Hugh Hamilton, Willie Walter, Fiona M Bailey, Sarah E R
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Family practice
Recently, faecal immunochemical tests (FITs) have been introduced for investigation of primary care patients with low-risk symptoms of colorectal cancer (CRC), but recommendations vary across the world. This systematic review of clinical practice guidelines aimed to determine how FITs are used in symptomatic primary care patients and the underpinni...
Lelie-van der Zande, Rian C Bouvy, Marcel L Teichert, And Martina
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Family practice
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most prevalent medical conditions among women seeking primary care. About 20-40% of the women have a UTI recurrence during their lifetime. To provide insight in the patterns of recurring annual dispensing for antibiotics commonly used for UTI treatment in women, aged 18 years or older, during a 5-year fol...
