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General practice based psychosocial interventions for supporting carers of people with dementia or stroke: a systematic review
Particularly with ageing populations, dementia and stroke and their resultant disability are worldwide concerns. Much of the support for people with these conditions comes from unpaid carers or caregivers. The...
Source: BMC Family Practice - January 15, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Nan Greenwood, Ferruccio Pelone and Anne-Marie Hassenkamp Source Type: research
Association of self-rated health with multimorbidity, chronic disease and psychosocial factors in a large middle-aged and older cohort from general practice: a cross-sectional study
Conclusions:
Self-rated health provides a simple, integrative patient-centred assessment for evaluation of illness in the context of multiple chronic disease diagnoses. Those registering in general practice in particular men with three or more diseases or those with cardiovascular comorbidities and with poorer self-rated health may warrant further assessment and intervention to improve their physical and subjective health.
Source: BMC Family Practice - November 25, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Nahal MavaddatJose ValderasRianne van der LindeKay KhawAnn Kinmonth Source Type: research
Exploration of population and practice characteristics explaining differences between practices in the proportion of hospital admissions that are emergencies
Conclusion:
In monitoring use of secondary care services, the role of population characteristics in determining levels of use is important, but so too is the ability of practices to meet the demands for care that face them. The level of resources, and the way in which available resources are used, are likely to be key in determining whether a practice is able to meet the health care needs of its patients.
Source: BMC Family Practice - May 21, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Chantelle WisemanRichard Baker Source Type: research
The inter-contact interval: a new measure to define frequent attenders in primary care
Background:
Frequent attenders receive much attention in primary care research. Defining frequent attendance is crucial for an adequate view on this group of demanding patients. We aimed to develop a purely contact-based definition of "frequent attendance" and to apply it to real patients.
Methods:
From electronic records of 123 general practices in Germany, patients' inter-contact intervals (ICI) between two consecutive doctor-patient-contacts were calculated in this retrospective observational study. ICI less than 7 days were labelled "frequent attendance", patients with 60% or more of such intervals "frequent attenders ...
Source: BMC Family Practice - October 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Authors: Johannes HauswaldtWolfgang HimmelEva Hummers-Pradier Source Type: research
