OBJECTIVE To analyse all clinical presentations to the crowd doctors at Scotland's largest football stadium over the course of one complete season. METHODS A standard clinical record form was used to document all consultations with the crowd doctors including treatment and subsequent referrals. The relevance of alcohol consumption was assessed. RESULTS A total of 127 casualties were seen at...

BACKGROUND First impressions are thought to exert a disproportionate influence on subsequent judgments; however, their role in medical diagnosis has not been systematically studied. We aimed to elicit and measure the association between first impressions and subsequent diagnoses in common presentations with subtle indications of cancer. METHODS Ninety UK family physicians conducted interactiv...

AIMS To determine the content of a distance learning course in therapeutics for general practitioners (GPs). METHODS This paper reports the results of a three-round Delphi study. The respondent group comprised 21 GPs who were expert in their field. In the first round, the experts were interviewed to determine the knowledge, skills, competencies and attitudes required by GPs to prescribe effec...

A community-based cross-sectional survey of 262 participants in four island communities of Manus, Papua New Guinea was conducted using a structured questionnaire to examine possible factors of malaria prevalence, including education experiences, knowledge, attitudes, and preventive behaviors, in relation to antimalarial antibody titers. Bivariate and multivariate analyses revealed that micro-en...

Views on ethical conduct in occupational medicine practice can vary from country to country and even between occupational health practitioners. However, there are many areas of common agreement, and this is apparent on comparing guidance documents on ethics produced by several different organizations. The usefulness of these documents will depend in part on how aware practitioners are of their ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate how South Asian patients conceptualise the notion of clinical trials and to identify key processes that impact on trial participation and the extent to which communication difficulties, perceptions of risk and attitudes to authority influence these decisions. Also to identify whether 'South Asian' patients are homogeneous in these issues, and which factors differ betwe...

BACKGROUND Patients' consent to being part of medical education is often taken for granted, both in primary and secondary care. Formal consent procedures are not used routinely during teaching and patients are not always aware of teaching activities. OBJECTIVE To investigate patients' attitudes and expectations on issues of consent regarding participation in teaching in general practice, and ...

OBJECTIVES To categorize senior health professionals' experience with poor medical practice in hospitals and in general practice, to describe perceptions which senior NHS staff have of good medical practice, and to describe how problems of poor medical practice are currently managed. DESIGN A postal questionnaire survey. The questionnaire sought perceptions of good medical practice, asked par...

BACKGROUND In epidemiological research, self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality, cardiovascular diseases, and other critical outcomes. It is recommended for clinical use, but research is lacking. AIM To investigate what happens in consultations when the question 'How would you assess your general health compared with others your own age?' is posed. DESIGN AND SETTING Auth...

AIM Confidentiality is important in healthcare practice, however, under certain circumstances, confidentiality is breached. In this paper, mental health professionals' (MHPs) practices related to informing imprisoned patients about confidentiality and its limits are presented. METHODS Twenty-four MHPs working in Swiss prisons were interviewed. Data analysis involved qualitative thematic codin...