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Process evaluation of a practice nurse-led smoking cessation trial in Australian general practice: views of general practitioners and practice nurses.

Family Practice, 2015
BACKGROUND Support in primary care can assist smokers to quit successfully, but there are barriers to general practitioners (GPs) providing this support routinely. Practice nurses (PNs) may be able to effectively take on this role.
E. Halcomb, J. Furler, Oshana Hermiz, I. Blackberry, Julie P. Smith, R. Richmond, N. Zwar   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Testing for sexually transmitted infections in general practice: cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Primary care is an important provider of sexual health care in England. We sought to explore the extent of testing for chlamydia and HIV in general practice and its relation to associated measures of sexual health in two contrasting ...
AK Sullivan, CA McGarrigle, Catherine H Mercer, CH Mercer, Chief Medical Officer Letter, Department of Health, Department of Health, G Hughes, Gary M Brook, Health Protection Agency, Helen Maguire, JA Cassell, Jackie A Cassell, JM Pimenta, KA Fenton, Katharine E Sadler, Lorna J Sutcliffe, M Amir Islam, N Low, National Chlamydia Screening Programme Office HPA, Nicola Low, O Kufeji, Patrick J Horner, Shuja Shafi, The UK Collaborative Group for HIV and STI Surveillance, VJ Johnston, W Slater   +26 more
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Identification of functional and diverse circulating cancer‐associated fibroblasts in metastatic castration‐naïve prostate cancer patients

Molecular Oncology, Volume 19, Issue 7, Page 2074-2091, July 2025.
Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) promote cancer growth, invasion (metastasis), and drug resistance. Here, we identified functional and diverse circulating CAFs (cCAFs) in patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa). cCAFs were found in higher numbers and were functional and diverse in mPCa patients versus healthy individuals, suggesting their ...
Richell Booijink, Leon W. M. M. Terstappen, Eshwari Dathathri, Khrystany Isebia, Jaco Kraan, John Martens, Ruchi Bansal   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exosomes as Emerging Regulators of Immune Responses in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Journal of Diabetes Research
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by high blood glucose levels resulting from insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion. Immune dysregulation-mediated chronic low-grade inflammation is a critical factor
Wei Zheng, Xin Ji, Qiao qiao Yin, Chensi Wu, Chengan Xu, Hongying Pan, Chun Wu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘I’ve put diabetes completely on the shelf till the mental stuff is in place’. How patients with doctor-assessed impaired self-care perceive disease, self-care, and support from general practitioners. A qualitative study

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2018
Objective: This paper investigated patients’ experiences of disease and self-care as well as perceptions of the general practitioner’s role in supporting patients with impaired self-care ability.
Mads Aage Toft Kristensen, Ann Dorrit Guassora, Anne Beiter Arreskov, Frans Boch Waldorff, Bibi Hølge-Hazelton   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Migraine review for general practice

Atención Primaria, 2021
A. L. Aguilar-Shea, J. Díaz-de-Terán
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Participatory design of a preliminary safety checklist for general practice.

The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2015
BACKGROUND The use of checklists to minimise errors is well established in high reliability, safety-critical industries. In health care there is growing interest in checklists to standardise checking processes and ensure task completion, and so provide ...
P. Bowie, J. Ferguson, Marion Macleod, S. Kennedy, Carl de Wet, D. McNab, Moya Kelly, J. Mckay, S. Atkinson   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Choice and the composition of general practice patient registers [PDF]

, 2009
Choice of general practice (GP) in the National Health Service (NHS), the UKs universal healthcare service, is a core element in the current trajectory of NHS policy. This paper uses an accessibility-based approach to investigate the pattern of patient
Lewis, D., Longley, P., Mateos, P.
core  

General Practitioners' perceptions of the route to evidence-based medicine: a questionnaire survey [PDF]

, 1998
Objectives: To determine the attitude of general practitioners towards evidence based medicine and their related educational needs. Design: A questionnaire study of general practitioners.
Field, Jenny, McColl, Alastair, Smith, Helen, White, Peter   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Circulating tumor cells: advancing personalized therapy in small cell lung cancer patients

Molecular Oncology, Volume 19, Issue 7, Page 1998-2013, July 2025.
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive form of lung cancer that spreads rapidly to secondary sites such as the brain and liver. Cancer cells circulating in the blood, “circulating tumor cells” (CTCs), have demonstrated prognostic value in SCLC, and evaluating biomarkers on CTCs could guide treatment decisions such as for PARP inhibitors ...
Prajwol Shrestha, Steven Kao, Veronica K. Cheung, Wendy A. Cooper, Nico van Zandwijk, John E. J. Rasko, Dannel Yeo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source