Family Practice

Editorials:

Roger Jones

Research misconduct
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 123-124; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.123 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Papers:

Dirk Devroey, Viviane Van Casteren, and André Sasse

How are patients informed about their HIV test results?
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 125-127; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.125 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DVK Chao, NY Chan, and WY Chan

Euthanasia revisited
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 128-134; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.128 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helen Mary Richards and Lisa Jennifer Schwartz

Ethics of qualitative research: are there special issues for health services research?
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 135-139; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.135 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wendy A Rogers

Whose autonomy? Which choice? A study of GPs' attitudes towards patient autonomy in the management of low back pain
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 140-145; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.140 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Farah Ahmad, Hansa Gupta, Jenna Rawlins, and Donna E Stewart

Preferences for gender of family physician among Canadian European-descent and South-Asian immigrant women
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 146-153; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.146 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tim Coleman, Keith Stevenson, and Andrew Wilson

A new method for describing smokers' consulting behaviours which indicate their motivation to stop smoking: an exploration of validity and reliability
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 154-160; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.154 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yori Gidron, Elaine Duncan, Alon Lazar, Aya Biderman, Howard Tandeter, and Pesach Shvartzman

Effects of guided written disclosure of stressful experiences on clinic visits and symptoms in frequent clinic attenders
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 161-166; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.161 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Lauteslager, HJ Brouwer, J Mohrs, PJE Bindels, and HGLM Grundmeijer

The patient as a source to improve the medical record
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 167-171; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.167 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karen Steven, Jill Morrison, and Neil Drummond

Lay versus professional motivation for asthma treatment: a cross-sectional, qualitative study in a single Glasgow general practice
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 172-177; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.172 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lindsey Wileman, Carl May, and Carolyn A Chew-Graham

Medically unexplained symptoms and the problem of power in the primary care consultation: a qualitative study
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 178-182; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.178 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katie Coleman and Elizabeth Murray

Patients' views and feelings on the community-based teaching of undergraduate medical students: a qualitative study
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 183-188; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.183 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edmundo C Mauad, Uilho A Gomes, Jarbas L Nogueira, Armando GF Melani, Denise L Lemos, and Geraldo S Hidalgo

Prevention of cervical cancer in a poor population in Brazil
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 189-192; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.189 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Darren Shickle, Rhydian Hapgood, and Nadeem Qureshi

The genetics liaison nurse role as a means of educating and supporting primary care professionals
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 193-196; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.193 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

TRB Pawlikowska, PR Nowak, W Szumilo-Grzesik, and JJ Walker

Primary care reform: a pilot study to test the evaluative potential of the Patient Enablement Instrument in Poland
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 197-201; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.197 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Judith Belle Brown, L Michelle Sangster, Truls Østbye, Janet M Barnsley, Maria Mathews, and Gina Ogilvie

Walk-in clinics: patient expectations and family physician availability
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 202-206; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.202 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

AT Stein, E Harzheim, M Costa, E Busnello, and LC Rodrigues

The relevance of continuity of care: a solution for the chaos in the emergency services
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 207-210; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.207 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence:

Marzena Zarzeczna-Baran and Barbara Balkowska

Teenage pregnancy: whose problem is it?
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 211; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.211 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Roger Jones

The ethics of medical research on humans.: Claire Foster. (172 pages, paperback £17.95, hardback £50.) Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN paperback 0-521-64573-5, hardback 0-521-64196-9.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 212; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.212 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joyce Kenkre

Practical nursing philosophy: the universal code.: David Seedhouse. (233 pages, £16.99.) John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2000. ISBN 0-471-49012-1.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 212-213; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.212-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia Yudkin

Making sense of statistics in healthcare.: Anna Hart. (170 pages, £19.95.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2001. ISBN 1-85775-472-7.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 213; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.213 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rhian Loudon

Health and ethnicity.: Helen Macbeth, Prakash Shetty (eds). (269 pages, £19.99.) Taylor & Francis, 2001. ISBN 0-415-24167-7.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 213-214; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.213-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Rose

Errors, medicine and the law.: Alan Merry, Alexander McCall Smith. (260 pages, paperback £17.95, hardback £47.50.) Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN paperback 0-521-00088-2, hardback 0-521-80631-3.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 214; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.214 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jill Thistlethwaite

Violence in healthcare: understanding, preventing and surviving violence; a practical guide for health professionals. Second edition.: Jonathan Shepherd (ed.). (241 pages, £27.50.) Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-263143-8.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 214-215; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.214-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pat Tate

Adolescent psychiatry in clinical practice.: Simon G Gowers (ed.). (575 pages, £45.) Arnold, 2001. ISBN 0-340-76384.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 215; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.215 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gordon Lennox

Dancing on drugs: risk, health, and hedonism in the British club scene.: Fiona Measham, Judith Aldridge, Howard Parker. (224 pages, £16.95.) Free Association Books Ltd, 2000. ISBN 1-85343-512-0.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 215-216; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.215-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon M Wiseman

Substance misuse and child care: how to understand, assist and intervene when drugs affect parenting.: Fiona Harbin, Michael Murphy (eds). (154 pages, £14.95.) Russell House Publishing Ltd, 2000. ISBN 1-898924-48-1.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 216; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.216 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie Campkin

Depression: social and economic timebomb: strategies for quality care.: Ann Dawson, Andre Tylee (eds). (207 pages, £19.95.) BMJ Books for WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2001. ISBN 0-727-91573-8.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 216-217; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.216-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Rudolf

Sleep disorders in children and adolescents.: Gregory Stores. (203 pages, £27.95.) Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-65398-3.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 217-218; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.217 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Pritchard

Clinical knowledge and practice in the information age: a handbook for health professionals.: Jeremy C Wyatt. (93 pages, £12.95.) Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2001. ISBN 1-85315-483-0.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 218; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.2.218 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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