Infertility management in primary care

Patient experience of infertility management in primary care: an in-depth interview study.

BACKGROUND GPs do not have a full range of diagnostic resources to help manage infertile couples. Little is known about the patient experience of infertility management in primary care. OBJECTIVE To explore the patient experience of infertility management from a primary care perspective. METHODS This was a nested qualitative study with infertile couples in North-East England. In-depth inter...

Epidemiology and management of infertility: a population-based study in UK primary care.

BACKGROUND Our current knowledge of the epidemiology of infertility is limited and outdated. Health care provision for infertility in the UK attracts public interest because of restrictions on access to services. OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence, prevalence, referral patterns and outcomes of infertile couples, presenting in general practice in UK. METHODS A population-based retrospective...

Family physicians’ attitude and practice of infertility management at primary care - Suez Canal University, Egypt

INTRODUCTION The very particular natures of infertility problem and infertility care make them different from other medical problems and services in developing countries. Even after the referral to specialists, the family physicians are expected to provide continuous support for these couples. This place the primary care service at the heart of all issues related to infertility. THE AIM OF TH...

Management Issues in Primary Care

Dementia is an important public health problem, though more than half of all dementia cases may go undiagnosed in primary-care settings.1 Screening is one strategy to increase detection and diagnosis of dementia in primary care, but only 24% of Canadian primary-care physicians routinely screen for dementia.2 Multiple barriers to screening have been identified, the most ubiquitous being “tyranny...

I-25: Changing Attitudes in Infertility Management