Family Practice

Original Clinical Research:

C Paterson

Complementary practitioners as part of the primary health care team: consulting patterns, patient characteristics and patient outcomes
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 347-354; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.347 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DR Hannay, CM Sunners, and MT Platts

Patients' perceptions of primary health care in an inner-city practice
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 355-360; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.355 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

TB Dybwad, L Kjolsrod, J Eskerud, and E Laerum

Why are some doctors high-prescribers of benzodiazepines and minor opiates? A qualitative study of GPs in Norway
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 361-368; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.361 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Dowell and H Hudson

A qualitative study of medication-taking behaviour in primary care
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 369-375; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.369 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Troein, L Rastam, S Selander, M Widlund, and G Uden

Understanding the unperceivable: ideas about cholesterol expressed by middle-aged men with recently discovered hypercholesterolaemia
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 376-381; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.376 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JB Skorpen and K Malterud

What did the doctor say--what did the patient hear? Operational knowledge in clinical communication
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 382-386; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.382 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JH Larsen and O Risor

Telephone consultations at the emergency service, Copenhagen County: analysis of doctor-patient communication patterns
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 387-393; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.387 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L Valkova

First early patient contact for medical students in Prague
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 394-396; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.394 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

I Aaraas, H Sorasdekkan, and IS Kristiansen

Are general practitioner hospitals cost-saving? Evidence from a rural area of Norway
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 397-402; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.397 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

P Molnar, A Biringer, A McGeer, and W McIsaac

Can pregnant women obtain their own specimens for group B streptococcus? A comparison of maternal versus physician screening. The Mount Sinai GBS Screening Group
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 403-406; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.403 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

AW Murphy, C Leonard, PK Plunkett, G Bury, F Lynam, M Smith, and D Gibney

Effect of the introduction of a financial incentive for fee-paying A&E attenders to consult their general practitioner before attending the A&E department
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 407-410; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.407 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

L Green

Selections from current literature: the fight over fat: is pharmacological lipid lowering useful for coronary primary prevention?
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 411-415; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.411 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Communication:

J Emery

Familial breast cancer
Fam. Pract. 1997 14: 422; doi:10.1093/fampra/14.5.422 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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