The aim of this study was to determine and compare patients' and physicians' perceptions of benefits and risks of long term benzodiazepine use for insomnia in the elderly. A cross-sectional study (written survey) was conducted in an academic primary care
et al. Identifying patients with chronic conditions in need of palliative care in the general population: development of the NECPAL tool and preliminary prevalence rates in Catalonia. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2013;3(3):300–8.
et al. Effectiveness of a primary care based multifactorial intervention to improve frailty parameters in the elderly: a randomised clinical trial: rationale and study design. BMC Geriatr 14, 125 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-125 Download citation Received06 October 2014 Accepted...
In most studies an intra- uterine device (copper IUD) or Foley catheter to- gether with estrogen therapy is used to prevent recurrence of intrauterine adhesions, but no rando- mized controlled trials have been conducted to provide evidence for this management6. Other causes In areas where ...
Some doctors admitted that they had, on occasion, made concessions to patients to keep them ‘on the practice list’. If they felt the patient had no interest or appeared uncomfortable when their smoking habit was raised, the FP retreated from the subject and avoided addressing it in future....
cancer (28% of all deaths), 45% of whom die at home [10]. Primary care nationwide is provided by nearly 9.000 general practitioners (GPs), 57% of whom work part time [11]. A full time GP on average provides end-of-life care for a cancer patient nearly three times a year [12]....
Greenfield, G.; Foley, K.; Majeed, A. Rethinking primary care’s gatekeeper role. BMJ 2016, 354, i4803. [Google Scholar] Korr, K.S. On the front lines of primary care during the coronavirus pandemic: Shifting from office visits to telephone triage, telemedicine. Rhode Isl. Med. J. ...
Some doctors share with their patient, or experience unilaterally, an intense sense of closeness and intimacy through PAS, as Hendin [32] proposes that Dr. Quill and Dr. Chabot did while assisting in their patients' suicides. A Dutch palliative care physician, Dr. Cohen, who estimated that he...