The aim of this article is to update GPs on how to screen patients for eating disorders across the entire weight spectrum and to diagnose, treat and monitor patients with binge eating disorder.
Australia’s outdated definition of obesity likely hinders management and contributes to the observed gap between clinical guidelines and current practice.
This article explores the themes of patient choice, safety and optimising success in GP-led withdrawal. The four-step framework outlines how to best support patients to undertake a withdrawal.
This article discusses the causes, features and management of recurrent lower limb ulcers in a woman aged 75 years.
There is room for improvement in monitoring patients with early chronic kidney disease when considering alignment with national guidelines.
This paper provides an overview of exercise care in general practice to support sustained solutions for patients living with chronic disease.
The Focus articles in this issue explore COVID-19 renal disease, acute kidney injury, renal colic, paediatric urinary tract infections and haematuria.
The interface of general practice and kidney healthcare has never been more important than it is in our current pandemic world.
Patients can be empowered through understanding chronic kidney disease as not confined to a single organ system but as the antecedent and consequence of several pathophysiological processes.
The Focus articles in this issue explore various aspects of chronic kidney disease, as well as cystitis symptoms in women.
Psychological support provided by GPs is an important factor for the maintenance of a positive sense of wellbeing for patients with persistent pain.
Chronic non-cancer pain management illustrates the case for reconceptualising chronic condition management using a generic lifestyle-based approach.
The majority of referrals to a regional outpatient nephrology service contained insufficient detail to meet Australian guidelines.
This article aims to provide evidence-based information to GPs, aiding the decision to initiate sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors for chronic kidney disease patients.
This article investigates the prevalence of chronic pain in a rural setting and the use of specialist pain clinics and examines factors associated with well-managed pain.