Article: Women's health in clinical practice; a handbook for primary care.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Disorders of the Respiratory Tract: Common Challenges in ...
Respiratory Care;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Common Challenges in Primary Care. Matthew L Mintz MD. Current Clinical Practice series, Neil S Skolnik ... and asthma: most primary care practitioners become ... And, of course, primary care practitioners must strive ...

Article: Do Clinical Practice Guidelines Improve Processes ...
Military Medicine;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Background: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs ... more than 2,500 clinical practice guidelines (CPGs ... improving practice in the primary care setting.8,13 The ... and outcomes in a primary care setting. Methods ...

Article: Clinical practice guideline implementation strategy ...
Health Services Research;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been used increasingly to standardize diagnosis ... gap by qualitatively comparing implementation strategies used by VA primary care clinics that have high and low levels of adherence for six different ...

Article: Women's risk of heart disease: promoting awareness and ...
MedSurg Nursing;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... this article, interventions to promote awareness of women's cardiovascular risk are identified and implications for clinical practice discussed. Theoretical Framework Rosenstock's (1974) Health Belief Model (HBM) relates to the phenomenon of interest ...

Article: Clinical practice guidelines for managing COPD in a ...
JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... clinician can intervene at any stage of COPD, and the choice of medication depends on the stage (see Figure 1, page 29). The primary care provider must have timely access to pulmonary function testing for all symptomatic patients as part of the initial workup ...

Article: Headache: benign or worrisome? Keys to making the ...
Consultant;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... who seek treatment for headache from a primary care clinician, the cause is benign (primary ... Headache Disorders (ICHD II), (1) the primary care physician generally encounters only ... patients--it is rarely seen in the primary care setting. Tension-type headaches are ...

Article: Treatment of obesity: drugs or surgery?(Primary ...
Consultant;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... report that examined the efficacy of different obesity treatments in adults. (1) Highlights follow; the implications for clinical practice are listed in the Box. DRUG THERAPY FOR OBESITY Mechanism of action. Most of the drugs approved by the FDA for the treatment ...