Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The majority of patients with depression is treated by their General Practicioner (GP). In the Netherlands GPs are also responsible for cardiovascular risk management (CVRM), for which a guideline is made. Patients with a registered depression were compared to two controls. Intervention/instrument: not applicable.

General Practice 130

General Practice GP Management Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context In the post-discharge period from hospital acute inpatient care, the older patient is at risk from a lack of joined-up care. Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Though patients/carers are often copied in, they seldom get a plain English version or space to discuss its contents.

GP 130

GP DO Hospital Family Medicine 130

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. It’s the number of patients you need to treat to prevent one bad outcome. Baseline risk: NNT depends on the average baseline risk of study participants, which can differ in real life patients.

GP 130

GP Family Medicine Screening DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The highly individualised experience of living with obesity, coupled with the challenge for GPs to deliver healthcare messages in non-stigmatising ways, makes the role of a GP in obesity management complex. This study aimed to explore discussion strategies used in real-world GP-patient consultations when discussing obesity.

GP 130

GP Consulting Primary Care Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Poor recruitment leads to extension or discontinuation of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving patients. 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care GP Patients General Practitioner 130

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.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician GP General Practitioner Diabetes 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes. Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

PCP 130

PCP PCP Finance Nurse Practitioner 130