This article summarises the background and benefits of community HealthPathways, and offers tips on using this tool.
The authors discuss the ‘hidden curriculum’, which includes the values, influences and implicit sociocultural messaging delivered to medical students behind the scenes.
This article investigates skin health in urban-living Aboriginal children and young people presenting to primary care.
Application of specific biopsychosocial models supports general practitioners to advance best practice in disability care by meeting the complex care needs of their clients.
Ensuring general practitioners receive timely discharge medication information will enable them to safely continue the patient’s care in the community.
This article explores GP referrals to other health professionals and aims to describe a doctor’s medicolegal obligations and responsibilities when making a referral.
The three priorities in advanced care for osteoarthritis include surgical decision making, referral for evidence-informed non-surgical alternatives and surgical services.
In planning models of care for patients with non-communicable diseases, differences and commonalities must be considered.
This paper provides an update on the maintenance or discontinuation of antidepressant medication for adults.
This project discusses a model of care for safe and effective management of tuberculosis infection.
Research-ready general practitioners and practices would make general practice an ideal environment to conduct research relevant to the patients GPs serve.
Increasing the numbers of people with hepatitis B being tested, regularly monitored and treated in primary care settings will require additional systems-strengthening activity.
The Focus articles presented in AJGP this month raise issues about the future role and function of the general practice workforce in Australia.
In order to maintain some of the best population health outcomes in the world, what type of workforce should we aspire to?
This article evaluates the feasibility of a stepwise breathlessness diagnostic algorithm.