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Individuals with pre-existing long-term conditions (morbidities) may have a different pathways leading to their cancer diagnosis compared with those without such conditions but detailed evidence is limited. We aimed to investigate how morbidities were associated with a range of measures of the diagnostic process in primary care. We examined morbidi...
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This review presents the evidence, for the first time, on general practitioners’ (GPs’) views of pharmacist services in the general practice setting worldwide. Pharmacist services in general practice have the potential to yield several benefits for the practice, patient, and GPs themselves. However, to include pharmacist services in the practice is...
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Continuity of care (CoC) is accepted as a core value of primary care and is especially appreciated by patients with chronic conditions. Nevertheless, there are few studies investigating CoC for these patients across levels of healthcare. This study aims to investigate CoC for patients with somatic chronic diseases, both with regular general practit...
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Health coaching (HC) and mindfulness (MFN) are proven patient-centered interventions for mobilizing patients’ inner resources and changing the trajectories of many chronic physical and psychological conditions. However, though widely available in the private sector, they have been slow to find their way into public primary care in Canada. Since 201...
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Evidence has suggested a relationship between antenatal care (ANC) visits and childhood immunization coverage. However, evaluating its impact using observational data suffers from the problem of selection bias. Hence, we adopted propensity score-matched (PSM) analysis for studying the impact of ANC visits on childhood immunization. Data regarding A...
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Obesity affects quality of life and increases the risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Achieving and maintaining weight loss is difficult and for this reason a mutual understanding between the general practitioner (GP) and the patient is crucial. We used Q-methodology to study the patien...
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Published in Family practice
Published in Family practice
Most patients in primary care have multimorbidity, defined as 2 or more chronic diseases. Depression and/or anxiety are common in this population. Collaborative care (CC) can improve symptoms for patients with multimorbidity involving depression. In CC, a Care Manager (CM) establishes a care plan with the patient, cooperates with the patient’s phys...
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Lung ultrasound (LUS) has become the first diagnostic imaging approach to assess lung involvement in COVID-19. While LUS proved to be safe, reliable, and accurate, not many primary care physicians (PCP) are capable to employ this instrument in the first evaluation of COVID-19 outpatients. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of ...
