Br J Gen Pract Volume 53(486); January 2003

Volume 53(486); January 2003

January Focus

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 1–2.

PMCID:: PMC1314505

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The role of primary care in bioterrorism, epidemics and other major emergencies: failing to plan is planning to fail.

Paul Hodgkin, Kevin Perrett

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 5–6.

PMCID:: PMC1314484

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Disfigurement--neglected in primary care?

Rodger Charlton, Nichola Rumsey, James Partridge, Julie Barlow, Krysia Saul

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 6–8.

PMCID:: PMC1314485

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Influences on the variation in prevalence of type 2 diabetes between general practices: practice, patient or socioeconomic factors?

David L Whitford, Simon J Griffin, A Toby Prevost

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 9–14.

PMCID:: PMC1314486

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Characteristics of effective clinical guidelines for general practice.

Jako S Burgers, Richard P T M Grol, Joost O M Zaat, Teun H Spies, Akke K van der Bij, Henk G A Mokkink

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 15–19.

PMCID:: PMC1314503

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Randomised controlled trial of therapeutic massage in the management of stress.

Janet Hanley, Pamela Stirling, Christina Brown

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 20–25.

PMCID:: PMC1314487

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Predictors of hip joint replacement in new attenders in primary care with hip pain.

Fraser Birrell, Cara Afzal, Elizabeth Nahit, Mark Lunt, Gary J Macfarlane, Cyrus Cooper, Peter R Croft, Gillian Hosie, Alan J Silman

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 26–30.

PMCID:: PMC1314488

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The diagnostic value of macroscopic haematuria for the diagnosis of urological cancer in general practice.

Rudi Bruyninckx, Frank Buntinx, Bert Aertgeerts, Viviane Van Casteren

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 31–35.

PMCID:: PMC1314489

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A qualitative study of patients' perceptions of acute infective conjunctivitis.

Hazel Everitt, Satinder Kumar, Paul Little

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 36–41.

PMCID:: PMC1314490

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Parents' beliefs and expectations when presenting with a febrile child at an out-of-hours general practice clinic.

Per Kallestrup, Flemming Bro

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 43–44.

PMCID:: PMC1314491

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Pain and subsequent mortality and cancer among women in the Royal College of General Practitioners Oral Contraception Study.

Blair H Smith, Alison M Elliott, Philip C Hannaford

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 45–46.

PMCID:: PMC1314492

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Doctors' characteristics do not predict long-term glycaemic control in type 2 diabetic patients.

Lars J Hansen, Niels de Fine Olivarius, Volkert Siersma, John Sahl Andersen

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 47–49.

PMCID:: PMC1314493

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The general practitioner-patient consultation pattern as a tool for cancer diagnosis in general practice.

Nicholas Summerton, Alan S Rigby, Sara Mann, A M Summerton

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 50–52.

PMCID:: PMC1314494

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Walk-in centres in primary care: a review of the international literature.

Chris Salisbury, James Munro

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 53–59.

PMCID:: PMC1314495

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Teaching old dogs new tricks.

Geoff Wong

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 60.

PMCID:: PMC1314496

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Virtue ethics.

Gervase Vernon

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 60–61.

PMCID:: PMC1314497

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New GP contract and European definition.

Francesco Carelli

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 61.

PMCID:: PMC1314498

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Grief counselling and depression.

Charles Campion-Smith

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 61.

PMCID:: PMC1314499

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Inaccurate, leaky sphygmomanometers are still common.

Peter McCartney, Damian Crawford

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 61–62.

PMCID:: PMC1314500

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Preventing falls in primary care.

Malcolm Perkin

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 62–63.

PMCID:: PMC1314501

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Advanced access.

Ed Warren

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 63.

PMCID:: PMC1314502

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Medicine and the Holocaust - lessons for present and future physicians.

Shmuel Reis, Tomi Spenser

Br J Gen Pract. 2003 January; 53(486): 78–79.

PMCID:: PMC1314504

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