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Creating space to talk about patients' personal goals : experiences from primary care stakeholders [PDF]
BackgroundTo address the many challenges health systems and communities face, primary care is constantly searching for new strategies to improve quality of care. One of the strategies is to focus on patients' personal goals to direct the care process. To
Dagje Boeykens +85 more
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Pluralistic task shifting for a more timely cancer diagnosis. A grounded theory study from a primary care perspective. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE To explore how cancer could be diagnosed in a more timely way. DESIGN Grounded theory analysis of primary care physicians' free text survey responses to: 'How do you think the speed of diagnosis of cancer in primary care could be ...
Hoffman, Robert +44 more
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Primary care trusts and primary care research [PDF]
Research networks and academic departments can help to do much needed research P rimary care is central to the NHS and primary care research provides “the missing link in the development of high quality, evidence based health care for populations.”1 2 The recent development of primary care trusts, which are responsible for commissioning local health ...
Frederick, Chen, Azeem, Majeed
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Will the implementation process for goal-oriented primary care succeed? A qualitative study investigating five perceived attributes of goal-oriented care [PDF]
: Throughout the western world, goal oriented care (GOC) is increasingly promoted as a strategy towards more person-centered, integrated care. The implementation of goal-oriented care not only takes place at the micro-level with individual primary care ...
Vert\ue9, Emily +26 more
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Background Primary care in Aotearoa New Zealand is largely delivered by general practices, heavily subsidised by government. Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840) guarantees equal health outcomes for Māori and non-Māori, but differences are stark and longstanding.
Nicolette Sheridan +3 more
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Primary care spirometry* [PDF]
Primary care spirometry is a uniquely valuable tool in the evaluation of patients with respiratory symptoms, allowing the general practitioner to diagnose or exclude chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sometimes to confirm asthma, to determine the efficacy of asthma treatment and to correctly stage patients with COPD.
Derom, E. +7 more
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Systems for the management of respiratory disease in primary care - an international series: United Kingdom [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: The UK National Health Service (NHS) is essentially publicly funded through general taxation. Challenges facing the NHS include the rise in prevalence of long-term conditions and financial pressures.
Allison Worth +14 more
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Introduction COVID-19 transmission was significant amongst Qatar’s working population during the March–July 2020 outbreak. The study aimed to estimate the risk of exposure for COVID-19 across various workplace settings and demographics in the State of ...
Mohamed Ghaith Al-Kuwari +6 more
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Primary care: opportunities and threats Deregulating primary care [PDF]
The 1996 primary care white paper, Choice and Opportunity , offers scope for a wide range of new organisations to enter the market for NHS primary care. If the new law is implemented it will sweep away many of the existing legislative, budgetary, and procedural barriers to innovation, initially through a range of pilot schemes.
A, Coulter, N, Mays
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Primary Care and Primary Care Training: Mirror Images [PDF]
Primary care appears to be in a perpetual state of crisis. The failures are well known. Primary care physicians work in stressful, under-resourced work environments with overcrowded schedules geared towards acute care. Chronic disease patients receive inadequate treatment and physicians lack the time, expertise and money to systematically measure and ...
Eric J, Warm, Emily, Leasure
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