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What Does “NNT” Mean and Why Should You Care?

Family Medicine Initiative

MAY 7, 2025

While I strive to write evidence-based but easy-to-understand articles, I believe the NNT is a research concept every GP should know. However, a 2020 analysis of 875 clinical trials showed that only 9% reported an NNT. What is the NNT? It’s the number of patients you need to treat to prevent one bad outcome. How to calculate it?

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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

JANUARY 27, 2025

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To compare demographic, clinical and psychosocial characteristics of children with FAP and IBS who are recruited by their GP versus via media. Setting: GPs from local GP practices. Population studied: Children aged 7-17 years with FAP or IBS according to their GP. years, interquartile range 1.5-4.6

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. Population Studied: General practitioners (GP’s), test developers, specialists in SC, and methodologists from in- and outside the Netherlands. safety and support).

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Flu vaccines are now available for 2025. What's on offer and which one should I get?

Medical Xpress

APRIL 5, 2025

You may have received an email from your GP clinic or a text message from your pharmacy telling you they're in stock. It's that time of year when flu vaccines are becoming available in Australia.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Insight in patient characteristics in both settings might invite to reflect upon referral strategies of general practitioners (GPs) and interpretation of study results from hospital care. Comparison was based on an estimation of potential clinical relevance. Nevertheless, many children are referred to pediatric care.

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

There is also the option of electronic health record (EHR) training and support work where you would travel to various hospitals/clinics around the country and train individuals on how to use EMR systems. Plus, I am constantly learning new things and staying up to date on clinical guidelines.

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Here We Go Again

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

JULY 4, 2024

I had been showered with gifts and cakes from work colleagues, as I prepared to do a little job-crafting and switch back to more GP-ing and less laptopping. Must have had a rough clinic, I supposed; a family of 4 had gone in before me, and that is never good. Nothing has been written in it since then. That was a good week.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. Are there, though, populations that it may be helpful in, or should that change with the advent of the new amyloid antibodies? Should it?

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics. Is a General Physician (GP) the same as a Family Physician (FP)? A general physician (GP) is not the same as a family physician (FP). A physician also may consider themselves a GP if they began practicing before Family Medicine became a specialty (in 1969).

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Adventures of a Sick Doctor

MARCH 24, 2020

These are the fears of the medical community, and they relate not just to the likelihood that our hospitals and clinics will soon be flooded with people, but that the staff working in those hospitals will be washed away, trampled over or blasted apart by the illness itself. Or not wearing any protective gear at all? Not like the rest of us.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Should GPs actually be treated as the stars of medicine? GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. Here are the key results.

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What Does “NNT” Mean and Why Should You Care?

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

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

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

Flu vaccines are now available for 2025. What's on offer and which one should I get?

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

Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Here We Go Again

Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

What is primary care? Part 2

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

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