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Health care professionals' perceptions towards lifelong learning in palliative care for general practitioners: a focus group study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: There is a growing need for palliative care. The majority of palliative patients prefer their general practitioner (GP) to organize their palliative home care. General practitioners need a range of competences to perform this task.
Deveugele, Myriam, Pype, Peter, Stes, Ann, Symons, Linda, Van den Eynden, Bart, Wens, Johan   +5 more
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Clinical inertia in general practice, a matter of debate: a qualitative study with 114 general practitioners in Belgium [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Prescribing that is not concordant with guidelines is increasingly referred to as clinical inertia (CI). However, CI may be only apparent, and the absence of decision may actually reflect appropriate inaction as a result of good clinical ...
Aujoulat, Isabelle, Jacquemin, Patricia, Hermans, Michel P, Rietzschel, Ernst, Scheen, André, Tréfois, Patrick, Darras, Elisabeth, Wens, Johan   +7 more
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Using 21st century diagnostics to overcome barriers for lung function testing in primary care: it is time to consider oscillometry

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
Obstructive airways diseases, including asthma and COPD as the most commonly encountered respiratory diseases in primary care, are both diagnosed by lung function testing using spirometry as the gold standard.
Janwillem W. H. Kocks, Grietje H. Prins, Samuel Bardsley, Deesha Ghorpade, Sundeep Salvi   +4 more
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General practitioners as teachers [PDF]

, 1994
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Dixon, AS
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A potential harmful effect of dexamethasone in non-severe COVID-19: results from the COPPER-pilot study

ERJ Open Research, 2022
Janwillem Kocks, Marjan Kerkhof, Jan Scherpenisse, Aimée van de Maat, Iris van Geer-Postmus, Thomas le Rütte, Jan Schaart, Reinold O.B. Gans, Huib A.M. Kerstjens   +8 more
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ACTIVITIES OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS AS IDENTIFIED BY MEDICAL DIRECTORS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES [PDF]

, 1979
University health services play a very important role in the general health, performance, and well-being of the students, the university itself, and the community.
Gottlieb, Miriam Lee, Moore, Candace Beaman   +1 more
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Response bias in job satisfaction surveys: English general practitioners [PDF]

Job satisfaction may affect the propensity to respond to job satisfaction surveys, so that estimates of average satisfaction and the effects of determinants of satisfaction may be biased. We examine response bias using data from a postal job satisfaction
AR Hole, I Hussein, H Gravelle
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Time lapses between distribution of influenza vaccines to health authorities and their administration by General Practitioners (GPs) to older adults: a retrospective study over five influenza seasons in Italy

Expert Review of Vaccines
Background Delays in influenza vaccine delivery and administration can hinder vaccine coverage and protection. This study examines the differentials in distributing and administering adjuvanted trivalent (aTIV) and quadrivalent influenza vaccines (aQIV ...
Francesco Lapi, Ettore Marconi, Elettra Fallani, Marco Salvatore, Maura Cambiaggi, Alessandro Rossi, Claudio Cricelli   +6 more
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Population need and geographical access to general practitioners in rural New Zealand [PDF]

, 2004
To use a geographical information system (GIS) approach to demonstrate the extent to which different areas in New Zealand vary in their geographical access to GPs, and to analyse the extent to which spatial access varies in relation to different ...
Barnett, A. Ross, Brabyn, Lars
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Are General Practitioners Good for Endogenous Supply and Health [PDF]

We investigate the impact of area general practitioner (GP) supply on individual health in England. If no allowance is made for the endogeneity of GP supply, the effect is positive but not statistically significant.
Hugh Gravelle, Matt Sutton, Stephen Morris   +2 more
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