Influences on students’ career decisions concerning general practice: a focus group study

Case stories in general practice: a focus group study

OBJECTIVES To explore the interactive process of sharing case stories in small-group activity in general practice. DESIGN Qualitative focus group study. SETTING Peer-group meetings of doctors attending specialist training or continuous medical education in general practice. PARTICIPANTS Twenty female and 30 male doctors working in general practice in Norway. RESULTS The storyline of cas...

Group Influences on Judgments Concerning the Future

Models of clinical reasoning with a focus on general practice: a critical review

Introduction: Diagnosis lies at the heart of general practice.Every day general practitioners (GPs) visit patients with awide variety of complaints and concerns, with often minor butsometimes serious symptoms. General practice has many featureswhich differentiate it from specialty care setting, but during thelast four decades little attention was paid to clinical reasoningin general practice. T...

Management of Overweight during Childhood: A Focus Group Study on Health Professionals' Experiences in General Practice

Background. Because of the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in childhood in the Western world, focus on the management in general practice has also increased. Objective. To explore the experiences of general practitioners (GPs) and practice nurses participating in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing two management programmes in general practice for children who are over...

Nationwide study of decisions concerning the end of life in general practice in The Netherlands.

OBJECTIVE To gain insight into decisions made in general practice about the end of life. DESIGN Study I: interviews with 405 physicians. Study II: analysis of death certificates with data obtained on 5197 cases in which decisions about the end of life may have been made. Study III: prospective study with doctors from study I: questionnaires used to collect information about 2257 deaths. The i...