We found a significant association between increasing general practitioner age and decreasing spirometry testing.
However, goals to increase general practitioners' awareness of the Guide, to carry out hypertension education, prevention and control in the communities and to improve hypertension awareness, treatment and control rates in hypertensive patients remain difficult tasks to accomplish nationwide.
The aim of this study was to investigate factors that contributed to general practitioners recruitment of patients in a professional-cluster trial which evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention to increase general practitioners adherence to a clinical practice guideline for acute low-back pain.
The baseline HADS-D predicted return to work and increased general practitioner visits.
Using a symptoms-based tool to diagnose ovarian cancer (OC) earlier is appealing, but may increase general practitioner (GP) workload because the symptoms are typically vague and non-specific.
This case study was aimed at increasing general practitioners', health visitors' and nurse practitioners' referrals of women diagnosed with mild to moderate postnatal depression for psychological therapies in one UK NHS Primary Care Trust.
Since continuing medical education increases general practitioners clinical proficiency as well as improving the quality of healthcare services [ 14], education should extend to current and future primary care practitioners.
In Finland, a 10-year asthma program was undertaken from 1994 to 2004 to improve asthma care and prevent asthma costs increasing, using general practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists.
To an increasing extent, general practitioners (GP) in the European countries are being asked to assess function, in addition to disease and illness, in social security claims [ 1, 2].
Vaccine uptake may also be increased if General Practitioners actively promote the pandemic vaccine to their patients, given the fact that we found higher rates of compliance for physician recommended vaccination, than for government recommendation.
