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The State Of Primary-Care Research, David Mant, Chris Del Mar, Paul Glasziou, Andre Knottnerus, Paul Wallace, Chris Van Weel
The State Of Primary-Care Research, David Mant, Chris Del Mar, Paul Glasziou, Andre Knottnerus, Paul Wallace, Chris Van Weel
Paul Glasziou
In March, 2003, the editor of The Lancet attended an international conference in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on primary-care research, subsequently running a rather dyspeptic editorial entitled "Is primary-care research a lost cause?" (1) This article highlighted the unacceptable weakness of primary-care research worldwide. A particular concern of the conference was the shortage of primary care research in less economically developed countries to inform the clinical and public health management of malnutrition, malaria, AIDS, water-borne infection, and other illnesses of poverty (2). However, problems exist even in economically developed countries. In Australia, for example, a crude measure of research productivity with …
“They Don't Want Anything To Do With You”: Patient Views Of Primary Care Management Of Chronic Pain., Gonzalo Bacigalupe
“They Don't Want Anything To Do With You”: Patient Views Of Primary Care Management Of Chronic Pain., Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH
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Bacterial Resistance To Antibiotics:How It Happens,Why It's Important,And What You Can Do About It., Richard Philp
Bacterial Resistance To Antibiotics:How It Happens,Why It's Important,And What You Can Do About It., Richard Philp
Richard B. Philp
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become a major clinical problem exacerbated by the widespread and sometimes inappropriate use of antibiotics. Reasons for its emergence, mechanisms of resistance, types of resistance and appropriate public behaviour to combat the problem are discussed in language accessable to the general public.