BSc (Med), MBBS (Hons), GCULT, PhD, FRACGP, General Practitioner, Residential Aged Care Homes, Sydney, NSW; Head of Discipline of General Practice, School of Population Health, UNSW Medicine & Health, Sydney, NSW
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on people with palliative care needs.
Barriers to general practice involvement in advance care planning and strategies for incorporating it into patient care are discussed.
In April 2020, a group of general practice leaders in NSW established a COVID-19 virtual community of practice to facilitate rapid transfer and implementation of clinical guidance into practice.
This paper describes a step-by-step approach to ethics applications for research projects in primary care for new and inexperienced researchers and those new to primary care research.
The relationship between prolonged breast cancer pathways and poorer survival is well established.
The lived experience of caregiving and the burden associated with this role indicates that caregivers are in need of support, yet there are several barriers to integration with the healthcare team.
Misunderstanding of P values is pervasive and might be influenced by a few central misconceptions.
Improving general practice-based research will enable the development of contextually relevant evidence-based medicine and recommendations in general practice, ultimately benefitting Australians.
Study to explore general practitioners’ perspectives on current advance care planning practice in New South Wales.
Achievement of personalised cancer care requires a system-wide approach that targets the patient, healthcare provider and healthcare system with data informing practice.