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Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD

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Hannah Clark PhD


Welcome to BMC Family Practice published by BioMed Central
BMC Family Practice is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of primary health care, including clinical management of patients, professional training, shared decision making, and the organisation and evaluation of health care in the community. BMC Family Practice (ISSN 1471-2296) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.



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BMC Family Practice 2009, 10:82
Doctors dealing with people affected by intellectual disability should always describe any physical examinations before carrying them out, as well as establish a triadic communication between them, the patient and the support worker.
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BMC Family Practice 2009, 10:73
Primary care physicians found that although a trial of a communication-based intervention for managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms showed only modest results, it helped them understand patients' suffering and improved the doctor-patient relationship.
BMC Family Practice 2009, 10:66
General practitioners' (GPs) gut instincts can be defined as a sense of alarm or a sense of reassurance and such conceptualization could facilitate their quantification in future research in clinical decision making.


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Doctor-patient communication with people with intellectual disability - a qualitative study
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