Family Practice

Editorials:

Henk Lamberts and Maurice Wood

The birth of the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC) Serendipity at the border of Lac Léman
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 433-435; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.433 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Research:

H Mönig, D Marquardt, T Arendt, and S Kloehn

Limited value of elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate as an indicator of malignancy
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 436-438; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.436 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher E Clark and Roy J Powell

The differential blood pressure sign in general practice: prevalence and prognostic value
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 439-441; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.439 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Manon M Kuilboer, Marc AM van Wijk, Mees Mosseveld, Emiel van der Does, Ben P Ponsioen, Johan C de Jongste, Shelley E Overbeek, and Johan van der Lei

Feasibility of AsthmaCritic, a decision-support system for asthma and COPD which generates patient-specific feedback on routinely recorded data in general practice
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 442-447; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.442 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roni Peleg, Polina Gehtman, Irina Blancovich, Rasmia Aburabia, Roni Allush, Shulamit Hazut, and Pesach Shvartzman

Outcomes of an intervention programme for treatment of asthma in a primary care clinic for Bedouins in southern Israel
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 448-451; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.448 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rolf Wahlström, Eva Hummers-Pradier, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Maria Muskova, Per Lagerløv, Petra Denig, Thimothy Oke, and D Mark Chaput de Saintonge

Variations in asthma treatment in five European countries—judgement analysis of case simulations
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 452-460; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.452 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yvonne L McNeill, Marjorie L Gillies, and Stuart F Wood

Fifteen year olds at risk of parasuicide or suicide: how can we identify them in general practice?
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 461-465; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.461 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

N Donner-Banzhoff, C Beck, F Meyer, JA Werner, and E Baum

Clinical findings in patients presenting with sore throat A study on inter-observer reliability
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 466-468; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.466 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Meir Steiner

Postnatal depression: a few simple questions
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 469-470; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.469 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wim Opstelten, Jan W Mauritz, Niek J de Wit, Albert JM van Wijck, Wim AB Stalman, and Gerrit A van Essen

Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia: incidence and risk indicators using a general practice research database
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 471-475; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.471 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Health Services Research:

David H Thom, Richard L Kravitz, Robert A Bell, Edward Krupat, and Rahman Azari

Patient trust in the physician: relationship to patient requests
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 476-483; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.476 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John R Skelton, Andy M Wearn, and FD Richard Hobbs

‘I’ and ‘we’: a concordancing analysis of how doctors and patients use first person pronouns in primary care consultations
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 484-488; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.484 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Bower, Nicola Mead, and Martin Roland

What dimensions underlie patient responses to the General Practice Assessment Survey? A factor analytic study
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 489-495; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.489 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bruce Guthrie

Continuity in UK general practice: a multilevel model of patient, doctor and practice factors associated with patients seeing their usual doctor
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 496-499; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.496 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DP Kernick and A Netten

A methodological framework to derive the cost of the GP consultation
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 500-503; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.500 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeannette Naish, Yvonne H Carter, Richard W Gray, Tony Stevens, Josephine M Tissier, and Madeleine M Gantley

Brief encounters of aggression and violence in primary care: a team approach to coping strategies
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 504-510; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.504 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Underwood, Susan O’Meara, and Emma Harvey

The acceptability to primary care staff of a multidisciplinary training package on acute back pain guidelines
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 511-515; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.511 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reinier A de Groot, Jan de Haan, Henk EP Bosveld, Albert Nijland, and Betty Meyboom-de Jong

The implementation of a call-back system reduces the doctor’s workload, and improves accessibility by telephone in general practice
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 516-519; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.516 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ulrich Freudenstein, Antony Arthur, Ruth Matthews, and Carol Jagger

Can routine information improve case finding of depression among 65 to 74 year olds in primary care?
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 520-522; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.520 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca Malik, Ivy Oandasan, and Malissa Yang

Health promotion, the family physician and youth: Improving the connection
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 523-528; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.523 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MC Watson, CM Bond, JM Grimshaw, J Mollison, A Ludbrook, and AE Walker

Educational strategies to promote evidence-based community pharmacy practice: a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT)
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 529-536; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.529 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lubna A Al-Ansary and Tawfik A Khoja

The place of evidence-based medicine among primary health care physicians in Riyadh region, Saudi Arabia
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 537-542; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.537 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Information Technology:

IM Okkes, HW Becker, RM Bernstein, and H Lamberts

The March 2002 update of the electronic version of ICPC-2: A step forward to the use of ICD-10 as a nomenclature and a terminology for ICPC-2
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 543-546; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.543 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Alistair Howitt, Sarah Clement, Simon de Lusignan, Krish Thiru, Daryl Goodwin, and Sally Wells

An evaluation of general practice websites in the UK
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 547-556; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.547 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Methods:

Chrystal Jaye

Doing qualitative research in general practice: methodological utility and engagement
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 557-562; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.557 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Selections from the Current Literature:

Colin P Kopes-Kerr

A simplified approach to the management of early chronic renal failure
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 563-565; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.563 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence:

Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, Jørgen Nexøe, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, and Jesper Bo Nielsen

NNT is not easily understood
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 566; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.566 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Misselbrook and David Armstrong

Response
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 566-567; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.566-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marco H Blanker and Arianne P Verhagen

Lipid-lowering drugs and erectile dysfunction
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 567; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.567 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Rhian Loudon

Cultivating health: cultural perspectives on promoting health.: Malcolm MacLachlan (ed.). (240 pages, hardback £45.) John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2001. ISBN 0-471-97725-X.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 568; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.568 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Samuel

An evidence-based approach to assessing older people in primary care. Occasional Paper 82.: EI Williams, G Fischer, U Junius, H Sandholzer, D Jones, M Vass (eds). (55 pages, £10.) Royal College of General Practitioners, 2002. ISBN 0-85084-274-3.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 568-569; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.568-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carl Whitehouse

Ethics, management and mythology: rational decision making for health service professionals.: Michael Loughlin. (304 pages, £19.95.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2002. ISBN 1-85775-574-X.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 569; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.569 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jane Hughes

Action evaluation of health programmes and changes: a handbook for a user-focused approach.: John Øvretveit. (255 pages, £27.50.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2002. ISBN 1-85775-925-7.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 569-570; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.569-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Bailey

The purchasing of health care by primary care organizations; and evaluation and guide to future policies.: Nicholas Mays, Sally Wyke, Gill Malbon, Nick Goodwin (eds). (341 pages, £25.) Open University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-335-20900-9.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 570-571; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.570 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jose Cheng

Obesity and overweight matters in primary care.: Ruth Chambers, Gill Wakley. (196 pages, £19.95.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2002. ISBN 1-85775-514-6.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 571; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.571 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Garrow

Obesity and weight management in primary care.: Colin Waine. (128 pages, £14.95.) Blackwell Science Ltd, 2002. ISBN 0-632–06514-1.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 571; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.571-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Macleod

Sexual health matters in primary care.: Gill Wakley, Ruth Chambers. (214 pages, £19.95.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2002. ISBN 1-85775-414-X.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 572; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.572 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sue Ziebland

The Cambridge guide to infertility management and assisted reproduction.: Godwin I Meniru. (289 pages, £32.95, US$47.95.) Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-01071-3.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 572-573; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.572-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Geoff Roberts

Beyond advice: 1. Becoming a motivational practitioner.: Richard J Botelho. (271 pages, US$30.) Motivate Healthy Habits, 2002. ISBN 0-9706738-2-5.Beyond advice: 2. Developing motivational skills.Richard Botelho. (222 pages, US$25.) Motivate Healthy Habits, 2002. ISBN 0-9706738-1-7.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 573; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.573 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Samuel

Evidence-based medicine toolkit.: Douglas Badenoch, Carl Heneghan. (65 pages, £9.95.) BMJ Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 0-7279-1601-7.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 573; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.573-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karyn Baum

The new private practice: therapist-coaches share stories, strategies, and advice.: Lynn Grodzki (ed.). (275 pages, US$32.) WW Norton & Company Ltd, 2002. ISBN 0-393-70379-7.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 574; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.5.574 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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