Strategies that have successfully increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake may also be effective in enhancing uptake across a range of vaccine-preventable diseases.
These interventions play a part in substance use disorder treatment and relapse prevention as well as improving physical and mental health and quality of life.
This article uses lived experience to outline some of the crucial trigger points where support from the general practitioner can have a significant impact on a positive path forward for the patient.
Random case analysis in practice clinical team meetings is a novel method of peer review of performance that also promotes quality improvement and can identify patient safety concerns.
Effort needs to be made to most effectively combine expert cancer care with holistic, whole-person care, across the cancer continuum.
This issue describes aspects of modern cancer treatment and underscores the importance of general practitioners to achieve optimal whole-person care.
This framework meets the need for a simple framework for practice-based case discussion that applies to both the formal problem case discussion and informal ad hoc teaching scenarios.
Many challenges exist in providing best-evidence treatments that promote an active approach facilitating self-efficacy and physical activity, and align with a contemporary understanding of pain.
Skin cancer medicine is a core component of Australian general practice and is consistently in the top 10 conditions managed.
Skin cancer medicine is a core component of Australian general practice. The Focus articles featured in this issue discuss the management of pigmented skin lesions in general practice.
Incomplete pretreatment assessment is likely to be a reflection of the recent shift in management of chronic hepatitis C to primary care.
Programmed shared medical appointments are effective, well accepted and cost efficient for body weight management.
This study examines whether SMS reminders may be a useful tool in the spectrum of care needed for optimal asthma management in general practice.
Education and learning activities that specifically target areas of medicolegal risk can help reduce the likelihood and severity of future medicolegal events.
This study discusses the potential adverse effects on women’s health of pharmacists diagnosing and treating urinary tract infections and other disease due to the shortage of general practitioners.