Family Practice

WONCA News:

WONCA News: An International Forum for Family Doctors
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: i; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.0I [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials:

Yvonne H Carter and Sean Hilton

Academic general practice: no time for ivory towers
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 283-284; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.283 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carolyn A Chew-Graham and Carl May

'Partners in pain’—the game of painmanship revisited
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 285-287; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.285 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

David R Tomlinson, Robert Colebunders, Yves Coppieters, Christa Dreezen, Roberta Andraghetti, Yon Fleerackers, Helmut Liess, John Kosmidis, and the Eurosupport Study Group

Primary care involvement in human immune deficiency virus infection—a pan-European view
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 288-292; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.288 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Azhar Farooqi, Davinder Nagra, Tony Edgar, and Kamlesh Khunti

Attitudes to lifestyle risk factors for coronary heart disease amongst South Asians in Leicester: a focus group study
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 293-297; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.293 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

B Scaife, PS Gill, PL Heywood, and RD Neal

Socio-economic characteristics of adult frequent attenders in general practice: secondary analysis of data
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 298-304; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.298 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne C Milne and Rosemary Chesson

Health services can be cool: partnership with adolescents in primary care
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 305-308; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.305 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carmen García-Peña, Sandra Reyes-Frausto, Isabel Reyes-Lagunes, and Onofre Muñoz-Hernández

Family physician job satisfaction in different medical care organization models
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 309-313; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.309 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joost J den Otter, Marian A de Bruyn-Schmidt, Marie Jose Wolters, Constant P van Schayck, Hans TM Folgering, Henk JM van den Hoogen, and Chris van Weel

Lung function measurement in general practice. General practice measurements compared with laboratory measurements during the DIMCA trial
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 314-316; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.314 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eva Charlotte Jung Johansen, Torben Lildholdt, Niels Damsbo, and Ebbe Wendel Eriksen

Tympanometry for diagnosis and treatment of otitis media in general practice
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 317-322; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.317 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dermot R Gorman, Helen Mackinnon, Marion Storrie, Gordon S Wilson, and Sheena Parker

The general practice perspective on cancer services in Lothian
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 323-328; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.323 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JAH Eekhof, GH De Bock, K Schaapveld, and MP Springer

Effects of screening for disorders among the elderly: an intervention study in general practice
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 329-333; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.329 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Short Reports:

Masanobu Okayama, Masahiro Igarashi, Shigeki Ohno, Atsushi Hashimoto, and Eiji Kajii

Japanese paediatricians' judgement of the appropriateness of bathing for children with colds
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 334-336; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.334 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alessandro Filippi, Germano Bettoncelli, and Augusto Zaninelli

Detected atrial fibrillation in North Italy: rates, calculated stroke risk and proportion of patients receiving thrombo-prophylaxis
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 337-339; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.337 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review:

Chris Salisbury

The demand for out-of-hours care from GPs: a review
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 340-347; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.340 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Selections from Current Literature:

Samuel A Sandowski

What is the ideal body weight?
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 348-351; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.348 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence:

Esko Kumpusalo, Pekka Mäntyselkä, and Jorma Takala

Chronic pain in primary care
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 352; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.352 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

George Freeman

The scientification of love.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 353; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.353 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Salinsky

The therapeutic potential of creative writing: writing myself.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 353-354; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.353-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jean Robinson

Involving patients and the public: how to do it better.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 354; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.354 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maggie Somerset

Parents as care managers: the experiences of those caring for young children with cerebral palsy.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 354-355; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.354-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie Campkin

Pretending to be normal: living with Asperger's syndrome.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 355; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.355 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter R Williams

Evidence-based clinical practice: concepts and approaches.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 355-356; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.355-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Samuel

Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EBM (2nd edn).
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 356; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.356 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Rhodes

The evidence-based primary care handbook.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 356-357; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.356-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steve Holmes

Practising evidence-based primary care.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 357; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.357 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MJV Bull

Surgery in the surgery.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 357-358; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.357-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stevo Durbaba

Using the Internet for healthcare.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 358; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.358 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark L Levy

Lung sounds and lung function: videocassette and booklet.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 358-359; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.358-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gordon Lennox

Disease knowledge and society.
Fam. Pract. 2000 17: 359; doi:10.1093/fampra/17.4.359 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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