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Creating space to talk about patients' personal goals : experiences from primary care stakeholders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
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]

open access: yes, 2021
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]

open access: yesBMJ, 2005
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]

open access: yes, 2023
: 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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Is there equity of patient health outcomes across models of general practice in Aotearoa New Zealand? A national cross-sectional study

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Primary care spirometry* [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Respiratory Journal, 2007
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]

open access: yes, 2010
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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COVID-19 infection across workplace settings in Qatar: a comparison of COVID-19 positivity rates of screened workers from March 1st until July 31st, 2020

open access: yesJournal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Primary care: opportunities and threats Deregulating primary care [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1997
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]

open access: yesJournal of General Internal Medicine, 2010
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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