BMC Family Practice

Section Editors

Attila Altiner, Rostock University
Carolyn Chew-Graham, Keele University
Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, University of Marburg
Mark Harris, University of New South Wales
Christos Lionis, University of Crete
Brian McKinstry, Edinburgh University

Executive Editor

Christopher Foote, BioMed Central

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Articles

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Is the QOF negatively affecting consultations?

The UKs Quality and Outcomes Framework encourages review consultations with sufferers of long term conditions to focus more on “tick-box” biomedical criteria, at the expense of the patients perspective, suggesting further evolution of the QOF is required

BMC Family Practice 2013, 14:103
"Health Coaching" to promote behaviour change

A new approach to health behaviour change, based on the patient-centred choice of the area of action, uses an innovative visualisation tool to successfully engage primary care patients and physicians.

BMC Family Practice 2013, 14:100
Quality indicators do not alter GPs choices

Providing Dutch GPs with quality information makes no difference to hospital referral patterns in the majority of cases, suggesting improved quality indicators are needed if reforms based around GP and patient choice are to be a success

BMC Family Practice 2013, 14:95
Patients happy to delay antibiotic treatment?

Over a third of women presenting with urinary tract infection symptoms are happy to delay antibiotic treatment when asked by their GP; the majority of these patients show an improvement in symptoms without further treatment

BMC Family Practice 2013, 14:71
Identifying suicidal youths

Young adults are less likely to consult a GP or express suicidal ideas during a consultation before attempting suicide than older adults, highlighting the difficulty faced in identifying young people at risk

BMC Family Practice 2013, 14:68
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Comments

No evidence that skills have been developed through...

Comment on: André et al. BMC Family Practice 2012, 13:38
References in tables

Comment on: Elshout et al. BMC Family Practice 2012, 12:33
Author error

Comment on: Redsell et al. BMC Family Practice 2011, 12:54

Hot topic

Morbidity and doctor characteristics only partly explain the substantial healthcare expenditures of frequent attenders: a record linkage study between patient data and reimbursements data

Smits FT, Brouwer HJ, Zwinderman AH, Mohrs J, Smeets HM, Bosmans JE, Schene AH, Van Weert HC et al.

BMC Family Practice 2013, 14:138

Scope

BMC Family Practice is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on 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.

It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field.

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