Home Visits in an Army Family Medicine Practice

Home visits in family medicine residency: evaluation of 8 years of a training program.

PROBLEM ADDRESSED There has been a decline in family physicians providing home visits to housebound patients. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM To increase family medicine residents' exposure to home visits; their comfort and skills in providing home visits; and their willingness to provide home visits after graduation. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Between 2000 and 2010, each family practice resident at St Josep...

Home visits in Croatian family practice: a longitudinal study: 1995-2012.

Similar to other countries, home visits in Croatia are within the scope of family medicine (FM). The significant changes have been implemented within the FM with almost no scientific evaluation. The study was undertaken with the main aim to determine the overall trends in home visiting in Croatian FM between 1995 and 2012. A data sources were Croatian Health Service Yearbooks, 1995-2012. The nu...

Psychological Medicine in Family Practice

Internet gambling: an emerging concern in family practice medicine?

BACKGROUND Gambling problems are rarely brought to the attention of family practice physicians, but pathological gambling can be associated with poor emotional and physical health. Recent availability and easy accessibility of Internet gambling may be associated with pathological gambling status, and Internet gambling may confer health risks. OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the prevalence of I...

Family medicine practice in rural any-country.