BACKGROUND Preconception health and care aims to reduce parental risk factors before pregnancy through health promotion and intervention. Little is known about the preconception interventions that general practitioners (GPs) provide. The aim of this study was to examine GPs' knowledge, attitudes, and views towards preconception health and care in the general practice setting. METHODS As part ...

BACKGROUND To obtain information related to the knowledge and clinical practice of general practitioners (GPs) in management of people with type 2 diabetes, and to explore the impact of formal continuous medical education (CME) programs. METHODS A total of 1104 GPs participated in a cross sectional survey related to diabetes management considering ADA/EASD consensus 2011 focused on demographi...

The objectives of this study were to investigate the awareness, motivation, and readiness of medical staff to take part in a cervical cancer screening program (CSP), with the ultimate aim of increasing the response rate to invitation letters and improving CSP effectiveness and coverage. Certified gynecologists (GYNs) and general practitioners (GPs) practicing in the national and private healthc...

BACKGROUND Obstructive Sleep Apnoea/Hypopnoea Syndrome (OSAHS) is a common disorder in the general population but often underestimated and underdiagnosed. METHODS This questionnaire-based study evaluated the overall level of knowledge about OSAHS among Italian General Practitioners (GPs), who are frequently involved in the management of this complex disease. This represents an interesting asp...

BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) are the most important providers of primary health care, as proven by related research published several decades ago. However, the knowledge structure and theme trends of such research remain unclear. Accordingly, this study aimed to provide an overview of the development of research on GPs over the period of 1999 to 2014. METHODS Studies on GPs conducte...

Our recent work [1] proposed a coarse in-motion alignment method, in which the adverse effect of the Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna lever arm was reported. The current note improves [1] by accounting for the prior knowledge of the lever arm. This note uses the same set of symbols as in [1] for brevity. Suppose the GPS antenna is rigidly fixed relative to the inertial navigation system ...

The implementation of a universal health insurance (UHI) model is a key political policy in Ireland. The objective here was to determine the understanding of general practitioners (GPs) and patients regarding UHI, its implementation and impact on both sets of stakeholders. Postal questionnaire to GPs, and opportunistic survey sampling of patients in two different GP practices were carried out. ...

The advancement of GPS technology has made it possible to use GPS devices asorientation and navigation tools, but also as tools to track spatiotemporal information.GPS tracking data can be broadly applied in location-based services, such as spatialdistribution of the economy, transportation routing and planning, traffic managementand environmental control. Therefore, knowled...

THE ENHANCEMENT OF GPS TECHNOLOGY ENABLES THE USE OF GPS DEVICES NOT ONLY AS NAVIGATION AND ORIENTATION TOOLS, BUT ALSO AS INSTRUMENTS USED TO CAPTURE TRAVELLED ROUTES: as sensors that measure activity on a city scale or the regional scale. TU Delft developed a process and database architecture for collecting data on pedestrian movement in three European city centres, Norwich, Rouen and Koblenz...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to describe GPs' knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards breast screening, and their association with practice-based organizations of breast screening. METHOD A stratified randomized sample of 158 GPs from within the North-East and North-West Thames Health Regions were interviewed. RESULTS Sixty-five per cent of GPs report checking the accuracy of invitation lists, and ...