Primary care, ambulatory care, and family medicine

Integrating family medicine and pharmacy to advance primary care therapeutics.

The prevalence of suboptimal prescribing of medications is well documented. Patients are often undertreated or not offered therapeutic treatments that are likely to confer benefit. As a result, drug-related hospital admissions are common and often preventable. Improvements to the health-care system are clearly needed in order to maximize the benefits that can be derived from medications. Many c...

Reflections on Primary Health Care and Family Medicine in Botswana

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Primary Care should be the ‘central function and main focus of a country’s health system‘.1 The Ouagadougu Declaration similarly states that the vehicle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing the health of African nations is Primary Health Ca...

Family medicine hospital care.

Describing primary care encounters: the Primary Care Network Survey and the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe clinical encounters in primary care research networks and compare them with those of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). METHODS Twenty US primary care research networks collected data on clinicians and patient encounters using the Primary Care Network Survey (PRINS) Clinician Interview (PRINS-1) and Patient Record (PRINS-2), ...

Family medicine internship training: importance for Hong Kong's primary care.

Over recent years, the Hong Kong SAR Government has realised the importance of primary care in the provision of cost-effective quality health care, as is evident from its latest health care reform document “Your Health, Your Life”.1 This is in line with “Primary Health Care, Now More Than Ever”, the World Health Organization’s 2008 annual report2 that emphasises the importance of primary care i...