Obesity in general practice

A Study of Obesity in General Practice

MUCH has been written on the subject of obesity, so much that it is impossible to review the literature here. Yet, after all the investigations on the subject, the cause of overweight still evades us, except in a few conditions (e.g., myxcedema), where it occurs as a secondary manifestation of underlying disorder. Basically, of course, if energy input is greater than output, there is increase i...

Obesity management in general practice: does current practice match guideline recommendations?

OBJECTIVE To assess the documentation of measures recommended in the National Health and Medical Research Council clinical practice guidelines for managing overweight and obesity in adults, adolescents and children in Australia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective analysis of routine general practice data from 270,426 adult patients. Data were extracted from the Melbourne East Mona...

A Preliminary Investigation of Cast Anxiety in General Orthopaedic Practice

Background: Anxiety following casting is an unrecognised complication that results in frequent visits to fracture clinic in the UK. There is a paucity of research regarding this complication. Failure to recognise Cast Anxiety (CA) leads to increased visits, frequent cast changes and possible failure of treatment despite no objective problems with the cast. Prior research has suggested a possibl...

Situating general practice training in the general practice context.

Migraine in general practice.

MIGRAINE does not kill. It produces painful, incapacitating attacks that last for hours and which with agonising regularity disrupt the normal pattern of life. This essay deals with the identification and treatment of trigger factors, which in a susceptible individual provoke a disabling paroxysmal headache. Trigger factors as diverse as stress, hunger, alcohol, fatigue, menstruation, oral cont...