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Development of a framework for transferring tests evaluated in secondary care to primary care settings: a Delphi study [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

These tests are primarily evaluated in secondary care (SC) before they are introduced into primary care (PC). Objective: To achieve consensus on prioritizing criteria for selecting tests that are used in SC and not yet in PC, but that have clinical potential in PC. Setting or Dataset: Primary care.

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Using media to enhance pediatric patient recruitment in primary care [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Recruitment of study participants by general practitioners (GPs) is a general concern in primary care. Objective: To compare demographic, clinical and psychosocial characteristics of children with FAP and IBS who are recruited by their GP versus via media.

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Primary Care Physicians Responses to Treatment Burden in People With Type 2 Diabetes: A Qualitative Video Analysis in China [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE This study aimed to examine the approaches general practitioners (GPs) use to respond to the treatment burden faced by people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 29 videos of GP-patient consultations in an academic general practice clinic in China.

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A comparison of children with functional abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome in primary care and secondary care [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Most children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be managed in primary care (PC). Nevertheless, many children are referred to pediatric care. It is not clear which children are referred and what the differences are between PC and hospital care populations.

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Geriatric Assessment Boosted Outcomes in OAs

Physician's Weekly

Frailty presence significantly predicted adverse outcomes. Investigators concluded that community-based CGA was associated with improved HRQoL and reduced acute care use among OAs, with the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) serving as a useful predictor of adverse outcomes.

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Trial of a Strategy to Reduce Antidepressants in Dementia

Physician's Weekly

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.

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Pacific communities co-designing and leading interventions to prevent gout and rheumatic fever in New Zealand [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: After a Samoan patient from New Zealand (NZ) attended a PACE workshop at NAPCRG in 2016 with her general practitioner, she was inspired to set up a Pacific community group to work towards better health outcomes for Pacific people living in South Auckland, NZ.

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