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Access to primary care can be affected by a person's social and environmental situation. Articles in this month’s edition discuss barriers to access and innovative solutions for improving access.
Clinical
Good quality e-mental health resources provide general practitioners with the opportunity to help patients improve their mental health in an efficient and illness-appropriate way.
Factors to be considered when assessing the burden of treatment and a patient’s capacity to cope with this workload are outlined.
Research
Street-based general practice services are critical to facilitate easy access to primary and secondary management of chronic multimorbid conditions in marginalised patients.
Professional
Some doctors rarely run late and yet seem to meet their patients’ needs. We call these colleagues ‘Time Lords’.
Editorial
It may be worthwhile for all clinicians to explore the conceptual frameworks that describe access to healthcare.
An overview on how to assess common neonatal presentations to general practice, highlighting some significant conditions that may require further assessment.
Focuses on the behaviours and needs of infants whose mothers have BPD, including knowledge and skills for primary care practitioners to help these troubled families.
Defines and provides guidelines on causes, assessment, appropriate investigation and management of tinnitus.
Case Study
A presentation of unilateral cataract in middle aged and older patients should prompt consideration of posterior segment pathology including ocular melanoma.
Temporomandibular dysfunction represents a major cause of orofacial pain. The focus of this article is to provide an overview of this disorder and management considerations in general practice.
Practitioners can improve diagnostic accuracy of skin biopsies and hasten appropriate management for patients by adopting some simple but effective steps during each biopsy procedure.
A case of euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis in a patient with latent autoimmune diabetes in adults using dapagliflozin.
Diagnosis of PCOS in an Aboriginal primary care setting is being performed correctly and at a young age; however, subsequent screening of cardiometabolic risk and emotional wellbeing needs more work.
Discusses the role of GPs in identifying patients who may be at risk of or are experiencing elder abuse.
Clinical challenge
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