Moving Times for GP Practice; HEALTH Reporter HELEN RAE Takes a Look at Why a Small Move Means Big Improvements for Patients Registered with a Tyneside GP Practice
Reports that a practice in a recruitment troublespot has removed a number of patients following the departure of physician Geoffrey Smith in Great Britain. Decision of Smith to leave the partnership; Details of the departure the p...
Washington State cancer patients found to be at greater risk for bankruptcy than people without a cancer diagnosis. Health Aff (Millwood). 2013;32(6):1143-1152. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2012.1263 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 25. Kale HP, Carroll NV. Self-reported financial burden...
CONCLUSION: Given the frequency and complexity of miscommunication in general practice consultations, GPs need to consider adopting various strategies, at both the practice/systems level and the level of the consultation interaction to minimise the risk of communication problems. 展开 ...
PATIENTS have praised an 'amazing' GP who turned up for work onthe morning of his wedding -...Scheerhout, John
All subjects walked under two different conditions without extensive practice: (1) barefoot and (2) wearing a powered AFO. Under each condition, the patients walked back and forth on a 9-m track with ten laps of level ground under the supervision of licensed physical therapists. The lower-...
The age-specific prevalence of ABI in the area surveyed was estimated at 183.7 per 100,000. The mean patient population per practice was 2,833 (SD = 950). There were found to be significantly more patients with ABI in rural areas than urban areas (p = 0.006). There were also ...
Notwithstanding the statistical significance, the clinical relevance of these findings is perhaps more meaningful at the population health level for evaluating the outcomes of adding telemedicine as a care venue. Moreover, telemedicine exposure (especially blended office and telemedicine care) likely ...
There was also a wide variation between practices in the uptake of High Use Health Cards, special funding for frequent attenders at general practices and 'Care Plus' funding for patients with chronic conditions. Practice deprivation, ethnicity and age only explained a minor part of this variation...
of kinesiophobia in patients with non-traumatic complaints of arm, neck and shoulder in general practice; (2) to establish whether the mean scores of kinesiophobia change over time in non-recovered patients; and (3) to evaluate variables associated with kinesiophobia in these patients at baseline....