Objectives Depression and depressive symptoms are common mental disorders that have a considerable effect on patients’ health-related quality of life and satisfaction with medical care, but the ...

Original research: Relationship between psychosocial problems and satisfaction with GP communication in German primary care practices: a structural equation model based on the cross-sectional GPCare-1 ...

Purpose The Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre (RCGP RSC) is one of the longest established primary care sentinel networks. In 2015, it established a new data and ...

Objective This longitudinal study aimed to document shifts in specialty preferences, career pathways and intended practice locations among medical students following the implementation of structured ...

Objective To produce an expert consensus hierarchy of harm to self and others from legal and illegal substance use. Design Structured questionnaire with nine scored categories of harm for 19 different ...

Objective To clarify the effects of smoking on the disposition of two commonly used antipsychotics, olanzapine and clozapine, and to create standards to adjust the doses of these drugs in clinical ...

Background Atypical Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS) is a rare but life-threatening thrombotic microangiopathy. If inadequately managed, aHUS can lead to progressive kidney failure, cardiovascular ...

Objectives Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease characterised by the formation of granulomas within various organs, mainly the lungs. Several studies from different countries have been undertaken to ...

1 Department of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine,The First Affiliated Hospital, and College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China Objectives To ...

Objective Although several falls risk assessment tools are available, it is unclear which have been validated and which would be most suitable for primary care practices. This systematic review aims ...

1 Primary Care & Population Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK 2 Department of Urology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, Hampshire, UK 3 Department ...

Introduction Patients with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) are often prescribed clopidogrel in order to reduce their risk of major adverse limb and cardiovascular events. Clopidogrel is ...