Objectives Internationally, general practitioners (GPs) are being encouraged to take an
active role in the care of their patients with obesity, but as yet there are few tools for them to …

Objectives Obesity management is an important issue for the international primary care
community. This scoping review examines the literature describing the role of the family doctor in …

Family doctors are often involved in assisting patients with behaviour change. The 5 As
framework has become the universal approach to teaching and practising the art of encouraging …

The COVID-19 is disproportionally affecting the poor, minorities and a broad range of
vulnerable populations, due to its inequitable spread in areas of dense population and limited …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the diversion of health resources away
from routine primary care delivery. This disruption of health services has necessitated new …

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the extreme vulnerability of older people
and other individuals who reside in long-term care, creating an urgent need for evidence-…

Translation in qualitative research is an essential process to accurately convey participants’
meanings between languages, thus ensuring the trustworthiness of qualitative research. …

Primary care research seeks to answer a wide variety of complex questions: how do we
most effectively manage patients with multiple illnesses? When is the practice nurse the best-…

Objectives We aimed to identify the core elements of centredness in healthcare literature.
Our overall research question is: How has centredness been represented within the health …

International primary care responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
have seen the prioritisation of acute and urgent services for people with COVID-19 as well …