Family Practice

WONCA News:

WONCA News : An International Forum for Family Doctors
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: i; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.0I [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials:

Roger Jones

Primary care research: ends and means
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 1-4; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.1 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Ernesto Kahan, Stanley Rabin, Hadas Tzur-Zilberman, Barbara Rabin, Ishai Shofty, Ofra Mehoudar, and Eliezer Kitai

Knowledge and attitudes of primary care physicians regarding battered women. Comparison between specialists in family medicine and GPs
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 5-9; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

YT Wun, XQ Lu, WN Liang, and JA Dickinson

The work by the developing primary care team in China: a survey in two cities
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 10-15; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.10 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JP Sturmberg

Continuity of care: towards a definition based on experiences of practising GPs
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 16-20; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.16 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Slim Haddad, Louise Potvin, Danièle Roberge, Raynald Pineault, and Martine Remondin

Patient perception of quality following a visit to a doctor in a primary care unit
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 21-29; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.21 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anita AH Verhoeven, Edzard J Boerma, and Betty Meyboom-de Jong

Which literature retrieval method is most effective for GPs?
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 30-35; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.30 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia Carthy, Ian Harvey, Richard Brawn, and Chris Watkins

A study of factors associated with cost and variation in prescribing among GPs
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 36-41; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.36 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shmuel Giveon and Ernesto Kahan

Patient adherence to family practitioners' recommendations for breast cancer screening: a historical cohort study
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 42-45; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.42 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sally Kerry, Pippa Oakeshott, Derek Dundas, and John Williams

Influence of postal distribution of The Royal College of Radiologists' guidelines, together with feedback on radiological referral rates, on X-ray referrals from general practice: a randomized controlled trial
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 46-52; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.46 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Short Reports:

Myfanwy Morgan, Christopher McKevitt, and Meryl Hudson

GPs' employment of locum doctors and satisfaction with their service
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 53-55; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.53 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pippa Oakeshott, Sally Kerry, Sima Hay, and Phillip Hay

Condom promotion in women attending inner city general practices for cervical smears: a randomized controlled trial
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 56-59; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.56 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mariam Molokhia and Pippa Oakeshott

A pilot study of cardiovascular risk assessment in Afro-Caribbean patients attending an inner city general practice
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 60-62; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.60 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C Llop, S Paredes, and C Llor

Criteria for selecting and using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in primary health care
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 63-65; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.63 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Methodologies:

David Kernick

Costing interventions in primary care
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 66-70; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.66 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helen Richards and Carol Emslie

The 'doctor' or the 'girl from the University'? Considering the influence of professional roles on qualitative interviewing
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 71-75; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.71 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rosaline S Barbour, Valerie A Featherstone, and Members of WoReN

Acquiring qualitative skills for primary care research. Review and reflections on a three-stage workshop. Part 1: using interviews to generate data
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 76-82; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.76 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rosaline S Barbour and Members of WoReN

Acquiring qualitative skills for primary care research. Review and reflections on a three-stage workshop. Part 2: analysing interview data
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 83-89; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.83 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Selections from Current Literature:

Jeffrey S Trilling

Psychoneuroimmunology: validation of the biopsychosocial model
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 90-93; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.90 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Michael Modell

Children's adjustment to adoption: developmental and clinical issues
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 94; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.94 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Campion

Child sexual abuse: informing practice from research
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 94-95; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.94-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Ham

Health services research methods: a guide to best practice
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 95; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.95 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kieran Sweeney

Follies and fallacies in medicine (third edition)
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 95-96; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.95-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Mccormack

Making sense of illness: science society and disease
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 96; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.96 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Donovan

Illegal leisure: the normalization of adolescent recreational drug use
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 96-97; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.96-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helen Moore

Good food for bad stomachs
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 97; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.97 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julian Barth

Clinical obesity
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 97-98; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.97-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karen Halliwell

Nurses and doctors at work: rethinking professional boundaries
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 98; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.98 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie Campkin

Stress management in primary care
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 98-99; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.98--a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Greta Rait

Survival skills for GPs
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 99; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.99 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia Prosser

Male fertility and infertility
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 99-100; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.99-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pat Tate

Sex-lives and videotape: sexual history taking in primary care
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 100; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.1.100 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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