Family Practice

Editorials:

Roger Jones

The impact of Family Practice
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 575-576; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.575 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Neil C Campbell, Una MacLeod, and David Weller

Primary care oncology: essential if high quality cancer care is to be achieved for all
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 577-578; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.577 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Risk and Decision Making:

Fiona M Walter and Nicky Britten

Patients’ understanding of risk: a qualitative study of decision-making about the menopause and hormone replacement therapy in general practice
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 579-586; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.579 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dejana Braithwaite, Stephen Sutton, W Henry Smithson, and Jon Emery

Internet-based risk assessment and decision support for the management of familial cancer in primary care: a survey of GPs’ attitudes and intentions
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 587-590; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.587 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karen Ballard

Understanding risk: women’s perceived risk of menopause-related disease and the value they place on preventive hormone replacement therapy
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 591-595; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.591 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

FD Richard Hobbs and Leif Erhardt

Acceptance of guideline recommendations and perceived implementation of coronary heart disease prevention among primary care physicians in five European countries: the Reassessing European Attitudes about Cardiovascular Treatment (REACT) survey
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 596-604; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.596 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William SM Summerskill and Catherine Pope

‘I saw the panic rise in her eyes, and evidence-based medicine went out of the door.’ An exploratory qualitative study of the barriers to secondary prevention in the management of coronary heart disease
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 605-610; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.605 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Owen P Dempsey and Hilary L Bekker

‘Heads you win, tails I lose’: a critical incident study of GPs’ decisions about emergency admission referrals
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 611-616; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.611 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Malin André, L Borgquist, M Foldevi, and S Mölstad

Asking for ‘rules of thumb’: a way to discover tacit knowledge in general practice
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 617-622; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.617 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stig J Andersson, Gunnar Lindberg, and Margareta Troein

What shapes GPs’ work with depressed patients? A qualitative interview study
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 623-631; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.623 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Sean Mullin, Carl R May, Scott Hedley, and Hannah Cole

Managing depression in primary care: another example of the inverse care law?
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 632-637; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.632 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonas Lundkvist, Ingemar Åkerlind, Lars Borgquist, and Sigvard Mölstad

The more time spent on listening, the less time spent on prescribing antibiotics in general practice
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 638-640; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.638 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Practice:

Ali Wilson, David Pearson, and Alan Hassey

Barriers to developing the nurse practitioner role in primary care—the GP perspective
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 641-646; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.641 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A Paul Williams, Jan Barnsley, Eugene Vayda, Janusz Kaczorowski, Truls Østbye, and Elizabeth Wenghofer

Comparing the characteristics and attitudes of physicians in different primary care settings: The Ontario Walk-in Clinic Study
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 647-657; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.647 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hazel Everitt and Paul Little

How do GPs diagnose and manage acute infective conjunctivitis? A GP survey
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 658-660; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.658 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tess J Harris, Derek G Cook, Sunil Shah, Christina R Victor, Stephen DeWilde, Carole Beighton, and Elizabeth Rink

Mammography uptake predictors in older women
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 661-664; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.661 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Peters, Ian Stanley, Mike Rose, Sue Kaney, and Peter Salmon

A randomized controlled trial of group aerobic exercise in primary care patients with persistent, unexplained physical symptoms
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 665-674; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.665 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joyce E Kenkre, Teresa F Allan, Rosalind S Tobias, David J Parry, Stirling Bryan, and Yvonne H Carter

Breaking bones, breaking budgets: a clinical and economic evaluation of a prospective, randomized, practice controlled, intervention study in the prevention of accidents in primary care
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 675-681; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.675 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abdullahi Fido and Raghad Al Kazemi

Survey of HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes of Kuwaiti family physicians
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 682-684; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.682 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Education and Research:

Loretta Bellman

Whole-system evaluation research of a scheme to support inner city recruitment and retention of GPs
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 685-690; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.685 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hilarie Bateman

A Research Information Sheet for Practices (RISP): a tool to facilitate research participation
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 691-697; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.691 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Selections from Current Literature:

Lorraine Danowski and Lauren Gargiula

Attitudes and practices regarding the introduction of solid foods to infants
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 698-702; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.698 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence:

S Jan, A Khalil, and K Gensberg

Electrotherapy of isolated human cells in tissue culture
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 703; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.703 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nigel Stocks and David Gunnell

A chain is as strong as its weakest link but that link could be the subject matter of the questionnaire!
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 704; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.704 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steve Iliffe and Jill Manthorpe

Risk maps and three dimensional models: a rejoinder to Misselbrook and Armstrong
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 704-707; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.704-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stella Ivaz

Testicular cancer awareness
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 707; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.707 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Marshall

Effectiveness of tonsillectomy? A reply to Howel et al.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 707-708; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.707-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Meena Hindmarch and Pippa Oakeshott

Interactions of the oral contraceptive pill with antibiotics and St John’s wort: knowledge of female college students
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 708; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.708 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Peter Campion

The resourceful patient.: JA Muir Gray. (173 pages, £14.50.) eRosetta Press Ltd, 2002. ISBN 1-904202-00-4.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 709; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.709 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jill Thistlethwaite

Bone and joint futures.: Anthony D Woolf(ed.). (159 pages, £ 16.95.) BMJ Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 0-7279-1548.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 709-710; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.709-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Trish Greenhalgh

Concise Oxford textbook of medicine on CD-ROM.: JGG Ledingham, DA Warrell (eds). (1 CD, £75.) Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19268-805-7.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 710; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.710 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karyn Baum

The Bellevue guide to outpatient medicine: an evidence-based guide to primary care.: Nate Link, Michael Tanner, Danielle Ofri, Lloyd Wasserman (eds). (424 pages, £25.) BMJ Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 0-7279-1680-7.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 711; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.711 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andy Ross

The science of the placebo: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda.: Harry A Guess, Arthur Kleinman, John W Kusek, Linda W Engel (eds). (343 pages, £15.95.) BMJ Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 0-7279-1594-0.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 711; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.711-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Salinsky

Evolving health: the origins of illness and how the modern world is making us sick.: Noel Boaz. (256 pages, £20.95 (US$27.95).) John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2002. ISBN 0-471-35261-6.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 712; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.712 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steve Holmes

GP recruitment and retention: a qualitative analysis of doctors’ comments about training for and working in general practice. Occasional Paper 83.: Julie Evans, Trevor Lambert, Michael Goldacre. (33 pages, £7.50.) Royal College of General Practitioners, 2002. ISBN 0-85084-276-X.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 712-713; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.712-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Adrian Dunbar

Prescription for learning: techniques, games and activities.: Ruth Chambers, Gill Wakley, Zafat Iqbal, Steve Field. (262 pages, £23.50.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2002. ISBN 1-85775-530-8.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 713; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.713 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claire Samuel

Apollo: the human face of medicine. CDs 1 & 2.: Peter Toon, Trisha Greenhalgh, Marcia Rigby, Geoff Wong, Will Coppola, Moira Sarsfield. (2 CDs, £50 each; £75 for 2.) BMJ Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 0-7279-1632-7/8
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 713-714; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.713-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marjorie Condie

Good people, good practice: a practical guide to managing personnel in the new primary care organisations.: Hilary Haman, Sally Irvine. (233 pages, £19.95.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2001. ISBN 1-85775-417-4.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 714; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.714 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Barclay

Palliative care in the home.: Derek Doyle, David Jeffrey. (180 pages, £29.50.) Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-263227-2.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 714; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.714-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Toon

What is death?: Tyler Volk. (253 pages. £20.95, US$27.95.) John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2002. ISBN 0-471-37544-6.
Fam. Pract. 2002 19: 715; doi:10.1093/fampra/19.6.715 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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