Effect of asthma and its treatment on growth: four year follow up of cohort of children from general practices in Tayside, Scotland

Objective: To investigate whether asthma or its treatment impairs children’s growth, after allowing for socioeconomic group.

Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: randomised trial of effect on health

Objective: To evaluate the effects of secondary prevention clinics run by nurses in general practice on the health of patients with coronary heart disease.

A randomised controlled trial of general practitioner safety advice for families with children under 5 years

Objective: To assess effectiveness of general practitioner advice about child safety, and provision of low cost safety equipment to low income families, on use of safety equipment and safe practices at home.

Hospital at home or acute hospital care? A cost minimisation analysis

Objective: To compare, from the viewpoints of the NHS and social services and of patients, the costs associated with early discharge to a hospital at home scheme and those associated with continued care in an acute hospital.

The impact on general practitioners of the changing balance of care for elderly people living in institutions

Objectives: To describe utilisation of general practitioners by elderly people resident in communal establishments; to examine variations in general practitioner utilisation and estimate the likely impact of the “downsizing” of long stay provision in NHS hospitals.

Call to needle times after acute myocardial infarction in urban and rural areas in northeast Scotland: prospective observational study

Objective: To determine call to needle times and consider how best to provide timely thrombolytic treatment for patients with acute myocardial infarction.

From trial data to practical knowledge: qualitative study of how general practitioners have accessed and used evidence about statin drugs in their management of hypercholesterolaemia

Objectives To explore how general practitioners have accessed and evaluated evidence from trials on the use of statin lipid lowering drugs and incorporated this evidence into their practice. To draw out the practical implications of this study for strategies to integrate clinical evidence into general medical practice.

Private practice option : National Health Service Corps guidebook.

Mode of access: Internet.

Medical student scholarship program, Illinois Department of Public Health, Pursuant to The Family Practice Residency Act (110 ILCS 935.1 et seq) : annual report FY... /

Description based on FY1993 ; title from caption.

The Annual practice.

"A collection of the statutes, orders, and rules relating to the general practice, procedure and jurisdiction of the Supreme Court."

The Best primary care practice for the 1990s.

Mode of access: Internet.

Using clinical indicators in a quality improvement programme targeting cardiac care

Rationale. The Brisbane Cardiac Consortium, a quality improvement collaboration of clinicians from three hospitals and five divisions of general practice, developed and reported clinical indicators as measures of the quality of care received by patients with acute coronary syndromes or congestive heart failure. Development of indicators. An expert panel derived indicators that measured gaps between evidence and practice. Data collected from hospital records and general practice heart-check forms were used to calculate process and outcome indicators for each condition. Our indicators were reliable (kappa scores 0.7-1.0) and widely accepted by clinicians as having face validity. Independent review of indicator-failed, in-hospital cases revealed that, for 27 of 28 process indicators, clinically legitimate reasons for withholding specific interventions were found in