Past research suggests that factors related to health care professionals' (HCPs) knowledge, training and competency can contribute to the underutilisation of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care by refugee and migrant women. The aim of this study was to examine the perceived preparedness of HCPs in relation to their knowledge, confidence and training needs when it comes to consulting refug...

DESIGN Qualitative study. GPs were interviewed after analysing two audiotaped cardiovascular consultations. SETTING Primary health care. SUBJECTS A sample of 15 GPs who audiotaped 22 consultations. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Barriers hampering GPs from following the guideline. RESULTS Data saturation was reached after about 13 interviews. The 25 identified barriers were related to the risk t...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate general practitioners' knowledge of absolute risk estimation, and whether they used it to guide their management of cardiovascular disease. METHOD A cross sectional postal self administered survey of GPs in the General Practice South Division in southern Tasmania. RESULTS A total of 56-62% of responders correctly answered knowledge questions...

In 1952 the state of general practice in the UK and the rest of the world was dire. Specialist medicine was advancing rapidly, Lord Moran would soon describe GPs as having ‘fallen off the ladder’, and Sir Arthur Thompson stated that general practice was ‘outmoded’. GPs had no training for their job, no body of scientific knowledge, no journal or college of their own. There was not one professor...

Human movement analysis and categorization of mobile users based on their movement semantics are challenging tasks. Further, due to security and privacy issues, insufficient labelled or user-annotated data (or, ground-truth data) makes the user-classification from GPS traces more complex. In this work, we present a framework which models user movement patterns containing both spatio-temporal an...

Understanding and discovering knowledge from GPS (Global Positioning System) traces of human activities is an essential topic in mobility-based urban computing. We propose TrajectoryNet—a neural network architecture for point-based trajectory classi€cation to infer real world human transportation modes from GPS traces. To overcome the challenge of capturing the underlying latent factors in the ...

OBJECTIVE To assess Mexico City physicians' knowledge and practices regarding cervical cancer and human papillomavirus (HPV) to compare obstetricians/gynecologists (ob/gyns) and general practitioners (GPs) on these variables. MATERIAL AND METHODS In April 2003, 187 ob/gyns and GPs working in 15 hospitals affiliated with the Federal District Secretary of Health (SSDF) completed a self-administ...

BACKGROUND Prompt diagnosis of an acute coronary syndrome is very important and urgent referral to a hospital is imperative because fast treatment can be life-saving and increase the patient's life expectancy and quality of life. The aim of our study was to identify GPs' reasons for referring or not referring patients presenting with chest pain. METHODS In a semi-structured interview, 21 GPs ...

UNLABELLED The escalation in the incidence of diabetes mellitus type 2 requires innovative approaches to manage the increasing burden of service provision, a particularly challenging issue for rural communities. Whereas shared care through specialist outreach clinics is a traditional approach to the management of chronic disease, the results on effectiveness are mixed. Where there is a joint co...