Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

Analysis of 500+ urgent GP visits in Germany shows most cases were handled in-office, often driven by fear, distress, or a need for reassurance. Students also recorded patients’ concerns and expectations, which were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The results showed that 523 cases were collected from 53 GP practices.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Secondary outcomes included the use of primary and secondary healthcare, nursing home (NH) admission, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), satisfaction, and mortality. The results showed that 303 individuals were recruited with a mean age of 83.2 Functional decline occurred 26.4% at 30 days and 33.7% at 180 days.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

The following is a summary of “Effects of deprescribing antidepressants in nursing home residents with dementia—a cluster randomized controlled trial,” published in the June 2025 issue of BMC Primary Care by Hølmkjær et al. Most individuals were women, with a median age of 85 years.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. What should we use to screen individuals? There’s an article about her in New York Times. Who should get it if anyone? Here we go.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Should GPs actually be treated as the stars of medicine? As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. More GPs = Higher Life Expectancy Did you know that people in areas with more GPs live longer ?

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

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