AIMS To (i) compare the views of general practitioners (GPs) and parents about the causes, consequences and management of childhood overweight/obesity; and (ii) explore the extent to which they can identify overweight/obesity in children. METHODS A questionnaire was mailed to all GPs in one Primary Care Trust and all parents in one primary school in southern England, 2008. Information was gat...

There is growing concern regarding the ability of GPS receivers to operate in the presence of in-band or nearband interference. In-band interference can occur deliberately from GPS jammers or naturally from spurious harmonics from nearby electronics that generate signal products that land in the GPS signal band. To support development and testing of GPS receivers in an interference environment,...

BACKGROUND The role of general practitioners (GPs) as reservoir and potential source for Staphylococcus aureus (SA) transmission is unknown. Our primary objective was to evaluate the prevalence of SA and community-acquired methicillin resistant SA (CA-MRSA) carrier status (including spa typing) among GPs and their patients in Belgium. The secondary objective was to determine the association bet...

Applications of unmanned vehicles can increase combat effectiveness and personnel safety. These include reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, logistics, minefield and other obstacle detection, explosive disposal, physical security, and operations in contaminated environments. Better communication and GPS technologies are necessary for a convoy of unmanned vehicles to accurately foll...

The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) has full access to the Beidou system, QZSS, GLONASS, Galileo and GPS on its campus. Currently UNNC has a number of GNSS receivers that can access the multi-GNSS constellation, these being a ComNav K508 triple frequency GPS/BeiDou/GLONASS system, Unicore UR240-CORS-II and UR240-RTK GPS/BeiDou receivers, Javad SIGMA and TIUMPH-VS multi GNSS receive...

BACKGROUND Studies of Primary Health Care (PHC) reveal considerable practice variations in terms of the range of services provided. In Norway, general practitioners (GPs) are traditionally expected to perform IUD-insertions and several surgical procedures as a part of comprehensive PHC. We aimed to investigate variation in the provision of surgical procedures and IUD-insertions across GPs and o...

BACKGROUND There is a large variation in referral rates to secondary care among GPs, which is partly unexplained. AIM To explore associations between reasons for referral to secondary care and patient, GP, and healthcare characteristics. DESIGN AND SETTING A cross-sectional study in Northern Norway. METHOD Data were derived from 44 (42%) of 104 randomly selected GPs between 2008 and 2010....

INTRODUCTION Currently Australia is experiencing a rural medical workforce shortage, especially among GPs. Strategies aimed at improving this shortage have generally been directed at small and remote rural communities (RRMA 4-7); however, longstanding GP shortages also continue in large (RRMA 3) rural communities. The key to the understanding the rural workforce is the perceptions of GPs themse...