Erin E. Sullivan, PhD, research director, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, and lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Zara Ibrahim, researcher, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care; Andrew L. Ellner, MD, co-director, Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, director, Program in Global Primary Car...

Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; HUH Heart and Lung Center, University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; University Clinic of Heart Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA Correspondence to: Johannes Bonatti, MD, FETCS. Cardiac Surgeon, Chief Hea...

Even though cultural, biological and health service factors influence the tolerance and acceptability of psychotropic drugs in different settings, there is a lack of data on the use of antidepressants in primary care settings from India. The aim of this study was to examine the tolerance of 3 models of antidepressants treatments (fluoxetine 20 mg; imipramine 75 mg; imipramine 150 mg) for common...

OBJECTIVE Depression is commonly seen, but infrequently adequately treated, in primary care clinics. Improving access to depression care in primary care clinics has improved outcomes in clinical trials; however, these interventions are largely unstudied in clinical settings. This study examined the effectiveness of a quality improvement project improving access to mental healthcare in a large p...

health reforms that emphasize public health and improvements in primary care can be cost-effective measures to achieve health improvements, especially in developing countries that face severe resource constraints. in their paper “shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000,” gusmano et al suggest that shanghai’s health policy-makers have been successful in...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To demonstrate how Care Need Index (CNI), a social deprivation index, may be used to allocate total primary health care resources. DESIGN Cross sectional survey and register data. The CNI was based on sociodemographic factors: elderly persons living alone, children under age 5, unemployed people, people with low educational status, single parents, high mobility, and foreign bo...

Study objective: To demonstrate how Care Need Index (CNI), a social deprivation index, may be used to allocate total primary health care resources. Design: Cross sectional survey and register data. The CNI was based on sociodemographic factors: elderly persons living alone, children under age 5, unemployed people, people with low educational status, single parents, high mobility, and foreign bo...

BACKGROUND Procedures documented by general practitioners in primary care have not been studied in relation to procedure coding systems. We aimed to describe procedures documented by Swedish general practitioners in electronic patient records and to compare them to the Swedish Classification of Health Interventions (KVÅ) and SNOMED CT. METHODS Procedures in 200 record entries were identified,...