BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) have an important role in the care of patients with chronic schizophrenia and of those in the early phases of this disorder. AIMS To obtain information about the number of patients in the early and chronic stages of schizophrenia seen in general practice; the needs and attitudes of GPs, their diagnostic knowledge concerning early phases of schizophrenia ...

In this study the level of knowledge of general practitioners (GPs) in different stages of their career, from the undergraduate level onwards to more than 20 years after certification, has been investigated. The total body of knowledge as well as the knowledge about different aspects of care was established. Participants were 108 medical students, 445 postgraduate trainees in six different stag...

BACKGROUND Infections caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are considered to be important health problems worldwide. The purpose of this study was to measure the general practitioners (GPs)' basic knowledge on HBV and HCV risk factors in determining their practice about this subject. METHODS A cross-sectional type questionnaire survey was carried out at all of 32 prim...

While clinical DSS have many proven benefits, their uptake by GPs (general practitioners) is limited. The purpose of this research was to develop and explore a UTAUT (Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology) based model of how and why GPs accept DSS. Insight into the reasons why GPs do not use clinical DSS combined with knowledge of why GPs use DSS will allow the development of strat...

BACKGROUND Continuing medical education (CME) in earlier cancer diagnosis was launched in Denmark in 2012 as part of the Danish National Cancer Plan. The CME programme was introduced to improve the recognition among general practitioners (GPs) of symptoms suggestive of cancer and improve the selection of patients requiring urgent investigation. This study aims to explore the effect of CME on GP...

BACKGROUND Well-organized screening and treatment programmes are effective to prevent Invasive Cervical Cancer (ICC) in LMICs. To achieve this, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the involvement of existing health personnel in casu doctors, nurses, midwives in ICC prevention. A necessary precondition is that health personnel have appropriate knowledge about ICC. Therefore, to inform...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Fasting during Ramadan is obligatory for all Muslims across the world. Through literature review, it has been found out that there are various articles published for the awareness of patients and general population regarding safe fasting during Ramadan. But very few studies highlight the Ramadan specific knowledge of general practitioners engaged in providing care to people ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the use of canalith repositioning manoeuvres and vestibular rehabilitation (VR) by GPs and to assess reasons for not using these techniques in patients with vertigo. DESIGN Online survey. SETTING GPs in the western and central part of the Netherlands. SUBJECTS AND METHOD Of GPs, 1169 were approached to participate in the survey. A sample of 426 GPs filled out the ...

Recording the movement of objects or persons with GPS-technology has been widely adopted. So called GPS traces are used for enriching travel diaries (Wolf et al. 2001), for learning significant places (Ashbrook and Starner 2003), for monitoring animal movement (Steiner et al. 2000) or for building road maps (Cao and Krumm 2009). While all of the mentioned applications rely on GPS traces, the me...