BACKGROUND Specialist outreach clinics in general practice, in which hospital-based specialists hold outpatient clinics in general practitioners' (GPs) surgeries, are one example of a shift in services from secondary to primary care. AIM To describe specialist outreach clinics held in fundholding general practices in two specialties from the perspective of patients, GPs, and consultants, and ...

the purpose of the present study was to determine the prevalence of mental disorders in general practitioners (gps), internist, neurologists and psychiatrists private clinic. samples were 400 (163 male, 237 female) who were selected randomly from four private clinics. the instrument used in this study was srq-20 questionnaire. results showed that the prevalence of mental disorders was 51% (49.1...

CLINICS is a multidisciplinary medical journal. This editorial highlights the field of cardiovascular research. We have selected papers published from 2011-2012 and focused on the concept of Continuously Variable Rating, which we have recently introduced as an alternative and hopefully superior method for evaluating published scientific papers (1). Ciolac and Greve (2) compared the heart rate r...