So, at long last, Bristol University has created a full-time academic post in General Practice. Whilst the appointment of a Senior Lecturer in this field may not be recognised immediately by everyone as another giant leap for mankind,?coming as it does almost 30 years after the formation of the first of such departments in the United Kingdom?nonetheless, the elevation of local Principal, Dr. Mi...

The role of the dental team in caries management by risk assessment is critical to successful patient outcomes. Positive patient interactions and communication, proper appointment scheduling, diagnostics and data gathering, as well as implementation of noninvasive or minimally invasive procedures can be the responsibility of all members of the dental team. This article will evaluate the role of...

He took his M.D. in 1890. He was appointed House Surgeon to the Children's Hospital, then Registrar and in 1896 Physician : he held this appointment until 1905 when he was appointed Consultant Physician. During the whole of his life, until he retired in 1946, he was in busy general practice, and endeared himself to all whom he met, patients and colleagues alike. He was an enthusiastic pioneer m...

Appearance of a thyroid nodule has become a daily occurrence in clinical practice. Adequate thyroid nodule assessment requires several diagnostic tests and multiple medical appointments, which results in a substantial delay in diagnosis. Implementation of a high-resolution thyroid nodule clinic largely avoids these drawbacks by condensing in a single appointment all tests required for adequate ...

OBJECTIVE To see whether extending appointment length from seven and a half minutes or less to 10 minutes per patient would increase health promotion in general practice consultations. DESIGN Controlled trial of 10 minute appointments. Consultations were compared with control surgeries in which the same doctors booked patients at their normal rate (median six minutes per patient). SETTING 1...

This paper provides an analysis of the use to which a particular appointment system service given to N.H.S. general practitioners has been put during the past seven years. The launching of the service was undertaken not with the idea that it would provide subsequent material for research but solely to help general practitioners. Nevertheless, this retrospective approach does provide information...

We evaluate the impact of the introduction from 2005 of an electronic outpatient appointment booking system intended to increase patient choice of hospital and appointment time (Choose and Book (C&B)) on patient non-attendance for first outpatient appointments referred by a patient’s General Practitioner. We estimate fixed effects panel models of the association between changes in GP practice C...

BACKGROUND As physicians are pressured to deliver an increasing number of preventive services, follow guidelines, engage in evidence-based practice, and deliver patient-centered care in managerially driven organizations, they struggle with how much control they have over their time. METHODS A secondary analysis was conducted with data from 3 parallel studies of clinical decision making in Ger...

OBJECTIVE: To improve access to new pediatric endocrinology appointments in an urban academic hospital faculty-based practice. METHODS: Three strategies were implemented to increase the number of appointment slots: new patient appointments were protected from conversion to follow-up appointments; all physicians, including senior faculty, were scheduled to see 3 to 4 new patients per session; an...