Family Practice

Editorials:

Brendan Delaney

Primary care research in the postmodern world
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 123-124; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh201 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patient and physician behaviour:

Juan J Gascón, Montserrat Sánchez-Ortuño, Bartolomé Llor, David Skidmore, and Pedro J Saturno

Why hypertensive patients do not comply with the treatment: Results from a qualitative study
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 125-130; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh202 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Odette Parry, Elizabeth Peel, Margaret Douglas, and Julia Lawton

Patients in waiting: a qualitative study of type 2 diabetes patients' perceptions of diagnosis
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 131-136; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh203 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catherine AJ Dixon, Charlotte NE Tompkins, Victoria L Allgar, and Nat MJ Wright

Abusive behaviour experienced by primary care receptionists: a cross-sectional survey
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 137-139; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh204 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard D Neal, Shane W Pascoe, and Victoria L Allgar

Alternative forms of consulting: survey of patients and GPs about their consultations
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 140-142; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh205 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dominique Paulus, Dominique Pestiaux, and Michel Doumenc

Teenagers and their family practitioner: matching between their reasons for encounter
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 143-145; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh206 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tim Hammond, Jane Clatworthy, and Rob Horne

Patients' use of GPs and community pharmacists in minor illness: a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 146-149; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh207 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Strang, Jim McCambridge, Simon Platts, and Paramabandhu Groves

Engaging the reluctant GP in care of the opiate misuser: Pilot study of change-orientated reflective listening (CORL)
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 150-154; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh208 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard F Heller, John E Sandars, Lesley Patterson, and Patrick McElduff

GPs' and physicians' interpretation of risks, benefits and diagnostic test results
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 155-159; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh209 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Love, Anthony C Dowell, Clare Salmond, and Peter Crampton

Quality indicators and variation in primary care: modelling GP referral patterns
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 160-165; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh210 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emergency care:

J Douglass, D Goeman, R Aroni, F Thien, M Abramson, K Stewart, and SM Sawyer

Choosing to attend an asthma doctor: a qualitative study in adults attending emergency departments
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 166-172; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh211 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alison Round, Tania Crabb, Ken Buckingham, Richard Mejzner, Vaughan Pearce, Reuben Ayres, Catherine Weeks, and William Hamilton

Six month outcomes after emergency admission of elderly patients to a community or a district general hospital
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 173-179; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh212 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DM Pickin, A O'Cathain, M Fall, AB Morgan, A Howe, and JP Nicholl

The impact of a general practice co-operative on accident and emergency services, patient satisfaction and GP satisfaction
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 180-182; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh213 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Technology in practice:

M Butzlaff, HC Vollmar, B Floer, N Koneczny, J Isfort, and S Lange

Learning with computerized guidelines in general practice?: A randomized controlled trial
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 183-188; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh214 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Malone, Ruth Harris, Richard Hooker, Tina Tucker, Nuttan Tanna, and Sasha Honnor

Health and the Internet—changing boundaries in primary care
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 189-191; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh215 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Research:

Harald Reiso, Pål Gulbrandsen, and Sören Brage

Doctors' prediction of certified sickness absence
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 192-198; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh216 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tora Woivalin, Gunilla Krantz, Taina Mäntyranta, and Karin C Ringsberg

Medically unexplained symptoms: perceptions of physicians in primary health care
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 199-203; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh217 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cheryl Haslam, Sue Brown, Sarah Atkinson, and Roger Haslam

Patients' experiences of medication for anxiety and depression: effects on working life
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 204-212; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh218 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research methods:

Marcus JH Huibers, Gijs Bleijenberg, Anna JHM Beurskens, IJmert Kant, J André Knottnerus, Daniëlle AWM van der Windt, Ellen Bazelmans, and Constant P van Schayck

An alternative trial design to overcome validity and recruitment problems in primary care research
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 213-218; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh219 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard D Neal, Nasreen Ali, Victoria Allgar, and Tim Coleman

Consent rates for video-recording general practice consultations: effect of ethnicity and other factors
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 219-220; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh220 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Correspondence:

Richard J McManus, M Innes, and R Loudon

Diagnosis of acute otitis media in primary care
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 221; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh221 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Fahey, Emma Webb, Alan Montgomery, and Rob Heyderman

Managing acute cystitis in women
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 221-222; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh222 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JS Huntley and R Touquet

Screening for alcohol misuse
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 222-223; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh223 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sima Hay, Phillip Hay, and Pippa Oakeshott

Feasibility of recruiting in a student bar for a trial of chlamydia screening in young women
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 223-224; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh224 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Blair H Smith

Perceptions of pain. Deborah Padfield. (128 pages, £14.99.) Dewi Lewis, 2003. ISBN 1-904587-02-X
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 225; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh225 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Sheldon

Clinical hypertension in practice. Gregory YH Lip. (110 pages, £14.95.) Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd, 2003. ISBN 1-85315-485-7
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 225; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh226 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sally Hull

Ethnicity, health and primary care. Joe Kai (ed.). (229 pages, £19.95.) Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-19-851573-1
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 226; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh227 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helen Lester

Interprofessional collaboration: from policy to practice in health and social care. Audrey Leathard (ed.). (392 pages, £18.99.) Bruner-Routledge, 2003. ISBN 1583911766
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 226-227; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh228 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Memel

The challenge for primary care. Nigel Starey. (248 pages, £35.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2003. ISBN 1-85775-569-3
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 227; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh229 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Trish Greenhalgh

Women in transition: a study of the experiences of Bangladeshi women living in Tower Hamlets. Chris Phillipson, Nilufar Ahmed, Joanna Latimer. (107 pages, £14.99.) The Policy Press, 2003. ISBN 1-86134-510-0
Fam. Pract. 2004 21: 227-228; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh230 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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