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Increasing the chance of dying at home: roles, tasks and approaches of general practitioners enabling palliative care: a systematic review of qualitative literature

BMC Primary Care, 2023
Background Many elderly people wish to die at home but end up dying at the hospital. If the patient wishes to die at home, palliative care provided by General Practitioners (GPs) may increase the chance of dying at home, however, there is a lack of ...
Shangavi Balasundram, Anne Holm, Kirstine Skov Benthien, Frans Boch Waldorff, Susanne Reventlow, Gritt Overbeck   +5 more
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Rhinitis in general practice [PDF]

, 2007
A 3 year old boy presented with a 3 week history of nasal obstruction, clear rhinorrhea, difficulty with feeding and a productive cough. Child was afebrile, had occasional watery itchy eyes and mother claimed that at night he tended to wake up a couple ...
drkvassallo@yahoo.co.uk, Vassallo, Kenneth   +1 more
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What to Do When Medical Evidence Can Only Be Generated Through Routine Data: An Example From Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation often receive off‐label rituximab treatment for Epstein–Barr virus reactivation, using adult dosing without pediatric evidence. This project aims to develop a clinical decision support tool (CDSS) that provides evidence‐based dosing scenarios by analyzing real‐world patient data.
Birgit Burkhardt, Antje Walz, Dietrich Knoerzer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in sexually transmitted infections in general practice 1990-2000: population based study using data from the UK general practice research database [PDF]

, 2006
Objective: To describe the contribution of primary care to the diagnosis and management of sexually transmitted infections in the United Kingdom, 1990-2000, in the context of increasing incidence of infections in genitourinary medicine clinics ...
Brook, M.G., Cassell, J.A., Hayward, A.C., Hughes, G., Islam, A., Johnson, A.M., Kinghorn, G.R., Majeed, A., Mercer, C.H., Petersen, I., Ross, J.D., Simms, I., Stephenson, J.M., Sutcliffe, L.   +13 more
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The disappearance of the "revolving door" patient in Scottish general practice: successful policies [PDF]

, 2012
<b>Background</b> We describe the health of "revolving door" patients in general practice in Scotland, estimate changes in their number over the timescale of the study, and explore reasons for changes, particularly related to NHS and ...
Andrea E Williamson, B Charlin, CA O'Donnell, D O'Reilly, J Greene, J Munro, JCM Gillies, JL Geller, K Charmaz, Kenneth Mullen, Paul CD Johnson, Philip Wilson, RR Donnelley   +12 more
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Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Patients With Osteosarcoma: Local Control Outcomes With Dosimetric Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Osteosarcoma is a radioresistant tumor that may benefit from stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for locoregional control in metastatic/recurrent disease. We report institutional practice patterns, outcomes, toxicity, and failures in osteosarcoma patients treated with SBRT.
Jenna Kocsis, Shauna R. Campbell, Jonathan Jang, Eashwar Somasundaram, Chandana A. Reddy, Jacob G. Scott, Lilyana Angelov, Peter M. Anderson, Matteo Trucco, Zachary Burke, Lukas Nystrom, Nathan Mesko, Anthony Magnelli, Erin S. Murphy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-performing primary care: reinvigorating general practice as a learning health system [PDF]

, 2022
Darran Foo, Janani Mahadeva, Francisco Lopez, Louise A. Ellis, Kate Churruca, Genevieve Dammery, Simon Willcock, Jeffrey Braithwaite   +7 more
openalex   +1 more source

Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Alan R. Barker, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Tomáš Sláma, Christina Schindera, Fabiën N. Belle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a performance measurement system for general practitioners’ office in China’s primary healthcare

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background General practitioners are the main providers of primary care services. To better strengthen the important role of general practitioners in primary healthcare services, China is promoting the general practitioners’ office system.
Wenjie Ruan, Changming Liu, Xiaoyang Liao, Zhaoxia Guo, Yalin Zhang, Yi Lei, Huadong Chen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treating Insomnia in General Practice [PDF]

, 2007
LS is a 13-year-old boy who presented with a one month history of difficulty in falling asleep. He was accompanied by his mother, who asked that he be prescribed some form of sleeping pill to solve the problem, because she was worried that it was ...
Camilleri, Mark
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