BACKGROUND The growing popularity of CAM among the public is coupled with an ongoing debate on its effectiveness, safety, and its implications on the reimbursement system. This issue is critically important for GPs, who have a "gatekeeping" role with respect to health care expenditure. GPs must be aware of medications' uses, limitations and possible adverse effects. Our objective was to explore...

BACKGROUND Generalists such as general practitioners and district nurses have been the main actors in community palliative care in Norway. Specialised oncology nurses with postgraduate palliative training are increasingly becoming involved. There is little research on their contribution. This study explores how general practitioners (GPs) and oncology nurses (ONs) experience their collaboration...

AIM To investigate general practitioners' (GPs') stated knowledge, use and training needs related to the patient safety features of computerised clinical systems in England. DESIGN Questionnaire survey. SUBJECTS AND SETTING GPs from six English primary care trusts. OUTCOME MEASURES GPs' views on the importance of specified patient safety features on their computer system; their knowledge ...

INTRODUCTION Alcohol misuse and related problems are common in Sri Lanka. The appropriateness of the primary care setting in dealing with alcohol misuse is well recognised, and general practitioners (GPs) constitute an important first contact setting. METHODS One hundred and fifty randomly selected GPs practising in the Colombo and Gampaha districts were given a questionnaire to assess how th...

BACKGROUND The criteria used when GPs submit stool specimens for microbiological investigation are unknown. AIM To determine what criteria GPs use to send stool specimens, and if they are consistent with national guidance, and whether GPs would prescribe an antibiotic before they receive a result. DESIGN AND SETTING Questionnaire survey of 974 GPs in 172 surgeries in England. METHOD GPs w...

BACKGROUND Smoking cessation advice by GPs is an effective and cost-effective intervention, but is not implemented as widely as it could be. AIM This wide-ranging Europe-wide literature review, part of the European Union (EU) PESCE (General Practitioners and the Economics of Smoking Cessation in Europe) project, explored the extent of GPs' engagement in smoking cessation and the factors that ...

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...

PURPOSE To study possible differences in trust between general practitioners (GPs) and occupational physicians (OPs) and the explanatory factors for trust. Insight into the factors predicting trust can improve programmes for stimulating the co-operation of GPs and OPs. THEORY On the basis of theories of trust and of social identity theory we expected, (1) in both professions a higher level of...

This paper deals with current ongoing efforts to investigate the influence of different presentation forms on spatial knowledge acquisition. The acquisition of spatial knowledge based on map, augmented reality (AR), and language is analyzed and compared in an empirical test for GPS-based pedestrian navigation. This paper describes the hypothesis and the methodology. Also work in progress on int...

Recently work on technological change has emphasized the importance and implications of di¤erent knowledge bases among industries in terms of innovative potential. In some industries, products and processes have become more complex, as well as there appears to be increased convergence in some market segments. Although increasing attention has been given to features of knowledge bases, there hav...