What and how to teach in a primary care setting

Developmental paediatrics in primary care: what should we teach?

There is little agreement about what constitutes good developmental paediatric practice at the level of primary care. Many of the available screening tests are intrinsically unsatisfactory or badly performed, but screening is only a small part of developmental paediatrics. Every primary care doctor should be familiar with the scientific basis of the subject even if a decision is made not to emb...

How to integrate social care services into primary health care? An experience from Iran

Background: Social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. In Iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. This study aimed to explore the roles and functions of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in providing social care services in Iran.   Methods: This was a qualitative study, for whic...

A Red, Scaly Rash: How To Recognize and Treat Psoriasis in the Primary Care Setting

• Objective: To review the diagnosis and treatment of

Dermatology research in primary care: why, what, and how?

Pragmatic trials in primary health care: what, when and how?

The word pragmatic was first used in relation to trials by Schwartz and Lellouch in 1967, in a paper in which they argue that most therapeutic trials are inadequately formulated because there is ambiguity about which of two radically different kinds of problem they are designed to address. They explain what these two kinds of problem are by distinguishing between pragmatic trials that are desig...