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The rural tax: comprehensive out-of-pocket costs associated with patient travel in British Columbia

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background A significant concern for rural patients is the cost of travel outside of their community for specialist and diagnostic care. Often, these costs are transferred to patients and their families, who also experience stress associated with ...
Jude Kornelsen, Asif Raza Khowaja, Gal Av-Gay, Eva Sullivan, Anshu Parajulee, Marjorie Dunnebacke, Dorothy Egan, Mickey Balas, Peggy Williamson   +8 more
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How do you define a family lawyer? [PDF]

, 1999
Family law has not only become a specialism in its own right, but family law practitioners have claimed for themselves special characteristics. This article reviews the attributes and skills to which the legal profession, and particularly the solicitors'
Piper, CD
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The effect of a new lifetime-cardiovascular-risk display on patients’ motivation to participate in shared decision-making

BMC Family Practice, 2018
Background This study investigated the effects of three different risk displays used in a cardiovascular risk calculator on patients’ motivation for shared decision-making (SDM).
Nikita Roman A. Jegan, Sarah Anna Kürwitz, Lena Kathrin Kramer, Monika Heinzel-Gutenbrunner, Charles Christian Adarkwah, Uwe Popert, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff   +6 more
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Attitudes and barriers towards conducting research amongst primary care physicians in Bahrain: a cross-sectional study

BMC Family Practice, 2019
Background Research in primary care is essential for disease diagnosis, management and prevention in relation to the individuals, families and the community.
Abeer J. Khalaf, Aysha I. Aljowder, Meead J. Buhamaid, Mona F. Alansari, Ghufran A. Jassim   +4 more
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Continuing Professional Development: A guide for Family Practitioners

South African Family Practice, 1999
No abstract available.
J. Blitz, M. de Villiers
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Delivering the unexpected—Information needs for PSA screening from Men's perspective: A qualitative study

Health Expectations, 2021
Background Making decisions about PSA screening tests is challenging, as it requires both knowledge of the possible benefits and harms of screening and an individual assessment of the patient's values.
Katrin Kuss, Charles Christian Adarkwah, Miriam Becker, Norbert Donner‐Banzhoff, Kathrin Schloessler   +4 more
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Risk of opioid misuse in chronic non-cancer pain in primary care patients - a cross sectional study

BMC Family Practice, 2018
Background Efforts to improve treatment of pain using opioids have to adequately take into account their therapeutic shortcomings which involve addictiveness. While there are no signs of an “opioid epidemic” in Germany similar to that in the US, there is
Johannes Maximilian Just, Linda Bingener, Markus Bleckwenn, Rieke Schnakenberg, Klaus Weckbecker   +4 more
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A volunteer-supported walking programme to improve physical function in older people (the POWER Study): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background Currently 21% of the German population is older than 65 years. Above this age, the risk of suffering from chronic disease and mental disorders increases rapidly.
Nina Grede, Anja Rieckert, Julia Muth, Joana Steinbuck, Sabine Weissbach, Annika Schneider, Beate Weber-Schicker, Ellen Freiberger, Nikita Jegan, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, Andreas Sönnichsen   +10 more
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Prevalence and predictors of having no general practitioner - analysis of the German health interview and examination survey for adults (DEGS1)

BMC Family Practice, 2019
Background Although patients in Germany are generally free to choose their primary healthcare provider, this role should mainly be assumed by general practitioners (GPs).
Judith Tillmann, Marie-Therese Puth, Klaus Weckbecker, Manuela Klaschik, Eva Münster   +4 more
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Patients’ relatives and psychiatric doctors : letter writing in the York Retreat 1875-1910 [PDF]

, 2007
This article investigates the practice of letter writing from family and friends of patients to doctors at the York Retreat asylum at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. During this time, letter writing was an important part
Wannell, Louise
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