BACKGROUND Communication between general practitioners (GPs) and specialists is important, if we want patients to receive the right type of care at the right moment. Most communication takes place through telephone contact, letters concerning information on patients more recently also by email, and joint postgraduate training. As much research has been aimed at the content of communication betw...

BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) are expected to be responsive to patients' expectations, but patients and doctors may have different views on what constitutes good general practice care. AIM To elicit areas of controversy as well as areas of mutual agreement between the opinions of patients and GPs with regard to good general practice care. METHOD A questionnaire, distributed to 850 ...

Our aim is to explore general practitioners' (GPs’) knowledge about EMF, and to assess whether different knowledge structures are related to the GPs’ concern about EMF. Random samples were drawn from lists of GPs in Germany in 2008. Knowledge about EMF was assessed by seven items. A latent class analysis was conducted to identify latent structures in GPs’ knowledge. Further, the GPs’ concern ab...

Global Positioning System (GPS) surveying is now seen as a true three dimensional tool and GPS heighting can be a viable alternative to other more conventional forms of height measurement. This paper examines the limitations and possibilities of GPS heighting. The first part of the paper details the limitations of GPS heighting, including those factors that affect the GPS height measurement its...

With the wide use of GPS, it becomes more and more important to improve the positioning accuracy. The GPS signal is very weak, and can be easily interfered. Space-time adaptive processing(STAP) can suppress the jamming not only in the temporal domain, but also in the spatial domain. STAP has now become a good candidates for jamming mitigation in GPS. In order to evaluate the performance of vari...

BACKGROUND General practitioners' (GPs') feelings of burnout or dissatisfaction may affect their patient care negatively, but it is unknown if these negative feelings also affect their mental health care. GPs' available time, together with specific communication tools, are important conditions for providing mental health care. We investigated if GPs who feel burnt out or dissatisfied with the t...

Aircraft landing using the Global Positioning System (GPS) in equatorial regions is more difficult than in other regions because ionospheric scintillation is prevalent. Ionospheric scintillation causes amplitude fades of 20 dB or more and an increase in the phase jitter. This research evaluates techniques to enhance a GPS receiver for overcoming ionospheric scintillation. To validate the design...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of patient-initiated aggression toward general practitioners in Australia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A cross-sectional national survey, conducted during February-May 2010, of 3090 GPs in 19 Divisions of General Practice, purposively sampled to represent urban, rural and remote areas. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Proportion of GPs experiencing patient-ini...

In the framework of the GRIM series of gravity field models, the CNES/GRGS GINS precise orbit determination software has been adapted to dynamic GPS data processing. That is simultaneous processing of all available observables (i.e. GPS, DORIS, Laser) and all available satellite orbits (i.e. GPS, TOPEX/POSEIDON) can now be performed. The TOPEX/POSEIDON (T/P) mission satellite is equipped with a...

BACKGROUND GPs typically sanction absence from work by issuing sickness certificates. There has been some debate recently about changing the way sickness certificates are issued and by whom. However, without understanding GPs' certification practices, their requirements in terms of training and education and how they feel the certification process should or should not be changed, measures aimed...