Objective: To establish the prevalence and characteristics of occupational violence in Australian
urban general practice, and examine practitioner correlates of violence. Design, setting …

OBJECTIVES: This study was undertaken in mid-1994 and assessed how accurately patients
recall the recency and result of their most recent cholesterol and Papanicolaou (Pap) tests. …

Background. Violence directed towards GPs has been recognized as a significant problem
in the UK. In Australian urban general practice, no study has previously examined this topic. …

Rationale, aims and objectives Occupational violence is increasingly recognized as a problem
in general practice, and has been suggested as adversely affecting general practitioners’ …

BACKGROUND: Workplace violence in general practice has been found to be an important
problem in the United Kingdom. No research has been undertaken in this area in Australian …

Rationale, aims and objectives Clinicians’ means of stratification of risk of violence has
been previously studied in health settings, but not in general practice. This study aimed to …

OBJECTIVE To explore GPs’ opinions about the causes of occupational violence in general
practice. DESIGN A cross-sectional qualitative study. SETTING Three urban divisions of …

Country doctors perform emergency work in addition to their conventional general practice
role. Over a one‐month period 17 general practitioners in four Hunter Region towns recorded …

… Elizabeth Malcolm would like to acknowledge the Trust's support for her work on Irish
public asylums and on mental illness among Irish emigrants to England in the late nineteenth …

BACKGROUND: Childhood asthma remains underdiagnosed in general practice.
Computers with a patient interface have the potential to screen children for asthma in a time-efficient …