Editorial: genetic aspects of preconception consultation in primary care
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Patient physical characteristics and primary care physician decision making in preconception genetic screening.
BACKGROUND There has been growing emphasis on preconception care as a strategy to improve maternal and child health since the 1980s. Increasingly, development of genetic tests will require primary care providers to make decisions about preconception genetic screening. Limited research has been conducted on how primary care providers interpret patients' characteristics and use constructs, such a...
متن کاملRecommendations for preconception care.
Every woman of reproductive age who is capable of becoming pregnant is a candidate for preconception care, regardless of whether she is planning to conceive. Preconception care is aimed at identifying and modifying biomedical, behavioral, and social risks through preventive and management interventions. Key components include risk assessment, health promotion, and medical and psychosocial inter...
متن کاملDoes preconception care work?
BACKGROUND To date, there is a lack of evidence to suggest that a systematic and coordinated approach to prepregnancy care might make a difference. AIMS To evaluate whether women who receive preconception care through a structured approach will be more likely to be healthy around the time of conception compared with women who plan their pregnancy but have not been exposed to preconception car...
متن کاملThe exceptional potential in each primary care consultation.
A four-point framework is described which has been found to be helpful for general practitioners who try to achieve greater breadth in each consultation. The framework has also provided a useful stimulus in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, because it provides a nomenclature to identify four major components of clinical practice which are particularly relevant to primary care.
متن کاملThe patient and the computer in the primary care consultation
OBJECTIVE Studies of the doctor-patient relationship have focused on the elaboration of power and/or authority using a range of techniques to study the encounter between doctor and patient. The widespread adoption of computers by doctors brings a third party into the consultation. While there has been some research into the way doctors view and manage this new relationship, the behavior of pati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Community Genetics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1868-310X,1868-6001
DOI: 10.1007/s12687-012-0106-0