This article outlines the key steps a health practice can take towards managing its compliance with privacy laws and data breach notification requirements.
The benefits of a strong doctor–patient relationship obtained through continuity of care should not be lost as our health system becomes more complex.
This paper examines the importance of, and challenges in, measuring and promoting continuity of care in Australia.
The demographic transition in the general practice patient population necessitates that general practitioners take a bigger role in diagnosing dementia.
General practitioners are an integral part of the multidisciplinary team to help manage pelvic girdle pain.
This study explores the experiences of patients accessing and receiving gender-affirming care.
The paper provides key strategies guiding practices to optimise implementing social work student placements.
Complex spinal pain interdisciplinary assessment in a primary care setting shows reasonable long-term outcomes comparable to more intensive interventions.
There are multiple resources available to primary health practitioners to improve their communication with refugee and asylum seeker patients.
Effective clinical triage of referrals relies on provision of adequate clinical information (‘red flags’) and investigations.
This paper considers common mechanisms underpinning chronic conditions and how these mechanisms might be targeted therapeutically in primary care.
This study examined the effectiveness of a general practice nurse intervention to reduce blood pressure in adults with hypertension who are at high risk of cardiovascular disease.
This paper discusses the possible risks and non-surgical management options for a man with urinary bladder cystitis and a giant urinary bladder diverticulum with calculus formation within.
A man aged 88 years was referred to a geriatric clinic for falls evaluation.
Antimicrobial resistance rates are higher in Australian residential aged care facilities than other community or hospital settings.