Background and AimsScreening and brief interventions (SBI) delivered in primary health care (PHC) are cost-effective in decreasing alcohol consumption; however, they are underused. This study aims to identify implementation strategies that focus on SBI uptake and measure impact on: (1) heavy drinking …

World-wide, shortages of primary care physicians and an increased demand for services have provided the impetus for delivering team-based primary care. The diversity of the primary care workforce is increasing to include a wider range of health professionals such as nurse practitioners, registered nurses …

Background: The awareness is growing that central sensitization is of prime importance for the assessment and management of chronic pain, but its classification is challenging clinically since no gold standard method of assessment exists. Objectives: Designing the first set of classification criteria …

Movement disorders and inactivity in dementia. Movement disorders in dementia An interesting article by Ramakers et al in 2007 showed that 5 years prior to the diagnosis of dementia these people significantly more often visited their home physician in contrast with cognitive healthy age matched controls. …

Inleiding: In de toekomst is een sterke expansie van de zorgvraag met betrekking tot huidkanker onvermijdelijk. Verwacht wordt dat deze zorgvraag zal verdrievoudigen. Ten gevolge van deze expansie zal er meer tijdsdruk komen te staan op dermatologische consulten. Aanpassingen in het werkveld van de dermatoloog …

Background: General practitioners with more positive role security and therapeutic commitment towards patients with hazardous or harmful alcohol consumption are more involved and manage more alcohol-related problems than others. In this study we evaluated the effects of our tailored multi-faceted improvement …

Background: Because of an expected shrinking supply of medical doctors for hospitalist posts, an increased emphasis on efficiency and continuity of care, and the standardization of many medical procedures, the role of hospitalist is increasingly allocated to physician assistants (PAs). PAs are nonphysician …

The first physician assistant (PA) program in Germany began in 2005. As of 2013 there are three PA programs operational, with a fourth to be inaugurated in the fall of 2013. The programs have produced approximately 100 graduates, all with a nursing background. The PA model of shifting tasks from medical …

De kans op het ontwikkelen van huidkanker is de afgelopen jaren flink gestegen: één op zes Nederlanders krijgt in zijn of haar leven te maken met huidkanker. Daarmee is huidkanker de meest voorkomende vorm van kanker in Nederland. In de literatuur wordt door dermatologen gesproken over een huidkankerepidemie …