Biochemical Screening Programme in General Practice: A Clinical Follow-up

Hyperlipidaemia in general practice: three year follow up of an opportunistic screening project.

As part of the national lipid screening project 927 people with a plasma cholesterol level greater than 6.5 mM were detected by screening 4006 men and women aged 25-59 years. Three years later 801 of the 878 patients eligible for a follow-up study (91%) had been followed up at least once. The median number of follow-up visits was two. The bulk of the workload fell on the nursing staff. The mean...

Follow-up study of rubella vaccination in general practice.

Follow up after a family based genetic screening programme for familial hypercholesterolaemia: is screening alone enough?

in the proportion of isolates attributable to HSV-1 occurred in each of the four age and sex subgroups (P < 0.0001) (figure). Comment Both the number and percentage of genital HSV-1 infections have risen. Genital infection with HSV-1 is strongly associated with being young (aged < 25 years) and being female. Explanations include changing host susceptibility and changing sexual behaviour of the ...

Organisation and cost-effectiveness of antenatal haemoglobinopathy screening and follow up in a community-based programme.

OBJECTIVE To consider the organisation cost and effectiveness, of universal, community-based antenatal screening for the haemoglobinopathies, and to estimate the cost-effectiveness of programmes at different levels of prevalence and mix of haemoglobinopathy traits. DESIGN Retrospective review of laboratory and Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre worksheets with costing of capital equipment, c...

Soft Systems Methodology for Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines in A General Hospital: A study protocol

Background: It is notoriously challenging to implement evidence-based care and to update and improve health care policy. Adhering to evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) serves as the driving force behind making decisions based on the best evidence and making efforts for improving the quality of patient care and outcomes. Despite requiring Iranian hospitals to implement CPGs in Ja...