Australian Journal of General Practice
Formerly Australian Family Physician (AFP)
Living with haemochromatosis is an individual journey that requires consistent, medically supported self-management guided by a positive attitude and awareness of the condition.
Patient-centred practice is needed to build a treatment plan that works for individual patients.
This study shows the importance of sharing and learning from policy differences.
In planning models of care for patients with non-communicable diseases, differences and commonalities must be considered.
Healthcare professionals would generally like to increase their electronic correspondence, yet most are currently faxing or posting their correspondence.
Faecal incontinence in residential aged care is highly prevalent, distressing and difficult to treat, and the evidence base for treatment remains deficient.
Shared medical appointments and programmed shared medical appointments are an innovative approach to chronic disease management.
The Freo Street Doctor service is an accredited, mobile, open-access general practice service to improve primary healthcare for people who are homeless and marginalised.
Multimorbidity, commonly defined as the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions within one person without defining an index chronic condition, has the person, not a disease, as the focus.
General practice as a unique discipline has advanced exponentially, culminating in the formal recognition as a distinct specialty.
The majority of referrals to a regional outpatient nephrology service contained insufficient detail to meet Australian guidelines.
The clinical challenge is based on this month’s Focus articles.
In patients with risk factors for leptospirosis, a high index of clinical suspicion is important to ensure early diagnosis and treatment.