Browsing Centre for Primary Care and Public Health by Title
Now showing items 702-721 of 1682
-
How do primary care doctors in England and Wales code and manage people with chronic kidney disease? Results from the National Chronic Kidney Disease Audit.
(2018-08-01)Background: In the UK, primary care records are electronic and require doctors to ascribe disease codes to direct care plans and facilitate safe prescribing. We investigated factors associated with coding of chronic kidney ... -
How do stroke survivors and their carers use practitioners' advice on secondary prevention medications? Qualitative study of an online forum.
(2017-09-01)Background: Secondary prevention medications reduce risk of stroke recurrence, yet many people do not receive recommended treatment, nor take medications optimally. Objective: Exploring how patients report making use of ... -
[How does the quality of life of long-term hospitalized psychiatric patients change after their discharge into the community?].
(1998-04)In the Berlin deinstitutionalisation study, quality of life in 134 long-term hospitalised psychiatric patients was examined twice: Discharged patients were interviewed again one year after their return to the community, ... -
How is poststroke fatigue understood by stroke survivors and carers? A thematic analysis of an online discussion forum.
(2019-07-09)OBJECTIVE: To understand poststroke fatigue from the perspective of stroke survivors and caregivers expressed in an online discussion forum. DESIGN: The search terms 'tiredness', 'fatigue', 'tired', 'weary' and 'weariness' ... -
How pragmatic are the randomised trials used in recommendations for control of glycosylated haemoglobin levels in type 2 diabetic patients in general practice: an application of the PRECIS II tool.
(BioMed Central, 2020-03-19)BACKGROUND: Recommendations for good clinical practice have been reported to be difficult to apply in real life by primary care clinicians. This could be because the clinical trials at the origin of the guidelines are based ... -
How primary care can help survivors of transient ischaemic attack and stroke return to work: focus groups with stakeholders from a UK community.
(2020-01-27)BACKGROUND: Evidence about how primary care can best enable survivors of transient ischaemic attack (TIA)/stroke return to work is limited. AIM: This study explored the role of primary care in supporting survivors of ... -
How to design efficient cluster randomised trials
(2017-07-14) -
Hydroxychloroquine and Mortality in SARS-Cov-2 Infection; the HOPE-Covid-19 Registry
(2023-01-01)Background: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) may be an effective, safe, and affordable treatment for Covid-19 that can be used in selected patients. However, more evidence on its association when it is used in different stages of ... -
Hypertension risk and clinical care in patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia; a systematic review and meta-analysis.
(2018-01-01)BACKGROUND: A higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has been observed in patients with bipolar disorder (BPD) or schizophrenia, partly due to an increased risk of hypertension (HTN), or a less effective care of it. ...