This article aims to provide an overview of evidence-based assessment, management and referral options for insomnia in Australian general practice.
Climate change is a health issue. As GPs, we need to treat it, and this edition of AJGP shows us how.
The aim of this article is to outline the steps required to achieve and promote sustainability from practice operations through to clinical care and advocacy.
Management is aimed at investigating and managing the primary causes with a focus on sputum clearance, reduction in exacerbations and improvement of quality of life.
Strangulation has potential significant sequelae such as carotid dissection, hypoxic brain injury and laryngeal injury.
This work highlights the important part that general practices play in responding to epidemic thunderstorm asthma events and the need for these practices to be prepared to respond.
A female patient, aged 59 years, presents with an 8 mm slightly raised lump on the right lateral border of the tongue.
A low dietary energy intake relative to exercise energy demands may result in an array of medical issues.
Black salve is promoted as an effective, safe and natural skin cancer treatment, but such claims are not evidence-based, and serious complications have been reported.
The knowledge produced by Cochrane reviews informs the guidelines that shape our responses to clinical presentations in general practice.
The article discusses the case of a woman aged 43 years who was admitted to the emergency department with hypertension and hypoglycaemia on point-of-care testing.
This article aims to improve general practitioners’ knowledge of a specific group of exercise-related conditions that occur in the shin region.
A girl aged 11 years had multiple visits to the general practitioner and emergency department with unusual episodes of sudden-onset respiratory distress associated with stridor.
General practice terms diversify the prevocational experiences of interns and help consolidate rural career pathways.